Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
Lords · Question HL4364 · Tabled 23 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Baroness Boycott
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stating that they “do not automatically consider or assume biomass used for energy as ‘carbon neutral’, even in cases where t
Answer
Answered by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, 6 Feb 2025
This IPCC reference relates to guidelines on reporting biomass as ‘zero’ emissions at the point of combustion. Under the IPCC Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting framework, removals and emissions associated with growing bioenergy crops, land-use change, fertil...