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Biofuels: Carbon Emissions |
| Question ID: |
1758530 |
| UIN: |
HL4364 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4704 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Boycott
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Baroness Boycott
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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 |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-06 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
2024 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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| Answering Member handle: |
lordphilofbrum
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@lordphilofbrum
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| Answer text: |
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... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |