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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 7, 期 11, 页码 788-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3410
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- Energy Bioscience Institute within the University of Illinois
- Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation within the University of Illinois
- Newton-Abrahams Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford, UK
Reduction of CO2 emissions will require a transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. Expansion of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol(1,2) provides one near-term scalable solution to reduce CO2 emissions from the global transport sector. In contrast to corn ethanol, the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol system may offset 86% of CO2 emissions compared to oil use, and emissions resulting fromland-use change to sugarcane are paid back in just 2-8 years(3,4). But, it has been uncertain how muchfurther expansion is possible given increasing demand for food and animal feed, climate change impacts and protection of natural ecosystems. We show that Brazilian sugarcane ethanol can provide the equivalent of 3.63-12.77Md(-1) of crude oil by 2045 under projected climate change while protecting forests under conservation(5) and accounting for future land demand for food and animal feed production. The corresponding range of CO2 offsets is 0.55-2.0 Gigatons yr(-1). This would displace 3.8-13.7% of crude oil consumption and 1.5-5.6% of net CO2 emission globally relative to data for 2014(6,7).
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