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Does bioenergy increase CO2 emissions more than burning coal?

The Land & Climate Podcast

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The Burning of Wood for Power

You published what is arguably seen as a very significant piece of work around the burning of wood for power. The climate crisis is so dire, and we've waited so long to do anything meaningful to cut our greenhouse gas emissions that I really hoped that it would turn out that wood was part of the solution. Unfortunately, it came out the other way. We can talk about why that is. And we had to publish the results that the science indicated. You are one of many research groups and scientists around the world who have been looking at this issue. Burning trees to generate power, electricity, and heat actually makes climate change worse for at least many decades, and possibly for a much longer time after

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