Biomass energy versus carbon sinks: trees and the Kyoto Protocol. From: Environment | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Hall, David O. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Trees and other forms of biomass should be utilized as energy sources in place of fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, aside from acting as carbon sinks. The use of biomass as a fossil fuel substitute offers many environmental and social benefits, such as its ability to be converted to electricity, heat as well as liquid and gaseous fuels.

At first reading, the Kyoto protocol appears only to advocate planting and conserving trees (afforestation and reforestation) to create carbo...

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