Reply to comment on ‘Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy’

We respond to Prisley et al’s (2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 128002) critique of Sterman et al (2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 015007), which found that using wood to produce electricity can worsen climate change at least through 2100, even if wood displaces coal. The result arises because (1) wood gener...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: John D Sterman, Lori Siegel, Juliette N Rooney-Varga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf354