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BIOMASS AND ITS ROLE IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION IE's Steven Gislam spoke to the Energy Transitions Commission's Lord Adair Turner and lead author Meera Atreya about biomass, and how it can help reach net-zero.
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June, IE spoke to the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) co-chair Lord Adair Turner to find out about the first two of five reports being published this year on how the world can transition to net-zero – one on electrification, the other on green hydrogen. In July, the ETC released its third report, ‘Bioresources Within a Net-Zero Emissions Economy: Making a Sustainable Approach Possible’, in which it sets out how the rapidly increasing demand for bioresources could outstrip sustainable supply. We caught up with Lord Turner along with the report’s lead author, Dr. Meera Atreya, to
learn more about the role that bioresources can play in the transition. “We'd been developing an overall view of the technologies required to decarbonise the economy,” explained Turner. “About a year ago, we took a step back and looked at all these technologies. That way, we could work out the relative balance, and see where the limits are on how much and how fast you could build. That led to the five reports we’re publishing this year.” “This report is different in tone to the last two. The ‘Making Clean Electrification Possible’ and the ‘Making a Hydrogen
