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© Copyright 2010 AACC International.
Published January 2010.
Life cycle assessment - a tool for industry to optimize the environmental performance of biofuel
T. Burns. Novozymes North America, Inc.
Burns, T. 2010. Life cycle assessment - a tool for industry to optimize the environmental performance of biofuel. Online. AACC International Cereal Science Knowledge Database
Sustainability focused industries have traditionally used Life Cycle Assessment to support the decision-making related to the development of new processes and products – as a tool to choose the environmentally most favourable among more alternatives processes or products. With the general increase in environmental awareness the use of LCA is expanding. Today LCA is on top of the agenda of policy-makers as a means to ensure a sustainable development of society. The life cycle concept is crucial to both types of considerations, however the goal and the scope and thus the modelling and data requirements are very different and there is a need to distinguish clearly between these alternative uses of LCA. Biofuel provides a very good example to illustrate this point. LCA is currently considered the basic methodology for establishing a regulatory framework that will ensure a sustainable use of biofuel by society. However, LCA is also used by the biofuel industry and the agricultural sector to further decrease the environmental footprint of producing biofuel. The presentation will address this need of industry for a generally acceptable and operational LCA framework, which supports the efforts to improve the environmental performance of biofuel technology, short term as well as long term. More specifically the presentation will present the views of a provider of biotechnology – and thus bring the production of biofuel into the broader perspective of the biobased society.
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