From Theory to Practice: Modeling Biomass Supply and Carbon Dioxide Removal for Climate Goals
Ms. Sophie CHLELA, Mines Paris-PSL, Centre for Applied Mathematics
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From Theory to Practice: Modeling Biomass Supply and Carbon Dioxide Removal for Climate Goals
1. From Theory to Practice:
Modeling Biomass Supply and Carbon
Dioxide Removal for Climate Goals
Sophie CHLELA PhD student
Sandrine SELOSSE PhD, Research supervisor
Summer 2024 Semi-Annual ETSAP Meeting
Online
24/06/2024
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Net zero emissions pathways
Synergies between energy and land
Implementation of GLOBIOM results in TIAM-FR
Scenarios
Results
Conclusion and future work
OUTLINE
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NET ZERO PATHWAYS
What does it entail?
Paris Agreement article 4.1.
Strict carbon budget remaining.
Incompressible emissions.
Implementation of carbon dioxide removal
Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Uses to
first provide negative emissions.
Riahi et al, 2021, Nature Climate Change
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Main issues are desertification, land
degradation and food security.
Land-based mitigation for carbon
sequestration and ecosystem restoration.
Balancing how much NETs are used and
which type.
LANDS ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
Land as challenge and solution
Climate Change 2022:
Impacts, Adaptation,
and Vulnerability,
IPCC.
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Energy system
EXPLORING SYNERGIES BETWEEN ENERGY AND LAND
Key figures:
AFOLU is a net source (+5.9賊4.1
GtCO2eq/yr between 2010 and
2019).
Deforestation: 45% of total AFOLU
emissions.
Source: UNFCCC
Energy system services
Biomass 1
Biomass 2
Biomass 3
AFOLU
GHG
emissions
Mitigation
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TIMES INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODEL (TIAM-FR)
The French version of the TIMES Integrated Assessment Model representing the world energy model in 15 regions, with a
time horizon until 2100.
Reference Energy System (RES) of TIAM-FR model TIAM-FR regions
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GLOBIOM-G4M
GLOBIOM is a partial equilibrium land use
model, which can assess competition for land-
use between agriculture, bioenergy, and
forestry.
Main sectors are agriculture and forestry,
production of crops and energy crops and are
represented according to their profitability, and
finally animal production.
The model is solved recursively dynamic and
can provide projections up to 2100.
International trade.
GLOBIOM
G4M
Cultivated area
Land prices
Forest biomass
demand & prices
Increments of
biomass stocks
Forest areas LAND USE
Population
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Biogenic nature of biomass and its value in decarbonization (ex
Biomass supply curves with BIOx price method.
Processing of the data for TIAM-FR:
1.Biomass as maximum potential.
2.GHG pricing based on Frank et al. 2021.
3. Carbon dioxide removal options.
4.CH4 and N2O mitigation.
TIAM-FR X GLOBIOM: WHAT IS NEEDED?
Biomass and GHG emissions
MESSAGEix documentation, IIASA
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COST CURVE FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF BIOMASS
Energy crops in GLOBIOM:
Second generation like short
rotation tree plantations
(SRP).
Highest potential with
increasing Biomass price.
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BIOMASS REPRESENTATION IN TIAM-FR
Crops are modelled on land-based
approach.
Allowed exploitable land based on GAEZ
(FAO).
No deforestation for the purpose of
bioenergy.
Land for feed and food is accounted.
Energy crops quantities and costs are
endogenously determined.
Source: Kang, 2017
Agriculture & harvest
residues (PJ)
costs
Potential
Energy crops (kt)
Forest biomass (PJ)
Land
occupation
Residues costs < Forest biomass costs <= Energy crops costs
Forest processing
(PJ)
1st and 2nd
generation (PJ)
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BIOMASS MAPPING AND IDENTIFICATION
Biomass supply curves from GLOBIOM used as limiting potential in TIAM-FR:
4 trajectories are chosen from GLOBIOM emulation.
Biomass costs in TIAM-FR are covered by the BIO price trajectory i.e BIO13.
Regional correspondence is feasible.
Commodity correlation.
Processing data to obtain the primary energy for the mapped BIOxx.
Primary bioenergy is allocated for each BIOxx as a share of the highest.
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SCENARIOS
A successful scenario including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with net zero emissions around 2070.
Similar scenario with GLOBIOM bioenergy potential.
Scenarios Demand Drivers
(GDP, growth of
sectoral energy
demand)
Narrative Climate policy assumptions
BIO-HIGH SSP2-1.9 Limitation on
temperature to keep
warming below 1.5属C.
Overshoot is allowed.
GHG/Carbon emissions constraints as
declared in NDC registry.
Global temperature increase by 2100 is
limited to 1.5属C.
BIO-GLOBIOM SSP2-1.9 Limitation on
temperature to keep
warming below 1.5属C.
Overshoot is allowed.
Same.
New potential for bioenergy as per the
integration of data from GLOBIOM.
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RESULTS BIOENERGY CROPS
A shift towards second generation crops.
Biomass quantities are found through the disaggregation provided by TIAM-FR.
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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
The enhancement in representing abatement technologies, including CDR, would provide a
solution for decarbonizing the hard-to-abate sectors.
Assumptions need to be aligned.
The energy model provides the optimized use of bioenergy crops.
Including the rest of the AFOLU sector in TIAM-FR.
Other questions are related to the impact of some CDR solutions to adaptation to climate
change i.e talking about co-benefits and SDGs.
15. Thank you for your attention!
Sophie Chlela
sophie.chlela@minesparis.psl.eu
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ANNEX: BIOMASS ROLE AND THE RESOURCES IN EUROPE
1. Energy Security and Sustainable development
2. Bioenergy represents around 60% of the total renewable energy in the EU in 2019
3. Stabilization of carbon in the forests and soils
Energy Crops Agriculture Forestry Waste
Primary Dry and wet manure coming from
cattle and that can be gasified
Roundwood: Logging residues, pre-
commercial thinnings
Residues from landscape care
management, roadside verges and
abandoned lands
Secondary Olive pits Covers woodchips and pellets,
sawdust and black liquor
Waste sector (solid/tertiary)
The waste obtained from pruning
of permanent crops (namely
orchards, vineyards, olives, citrus,
nuts) and the straw and stubbles
residues.
Biomass residues from different
industries and municipal solid
waste.
Source: ENSPRESO - an open, EU-28 wide, transparent and coherent database of wind,
solar and biomass energy potentials
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Enhanced Weathering
Direct Air Capture (DAC)
(and storage, DACS)
Ocean Alkalinity enhancement
CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL APPROACHES
Natural solutions Technologies Combined
Afforestation/Reforestation
[0.5-3.6 GtCO2/year]
Biochar
[0.52 GtCO2/year]
Soil Carbon Sequestration (SCS)
[up to 5GtCO2/year]
Coastal blue carbon
Enhanced Weathering
[24 GtCO2 /year]
Direct Air Capture (DAC)
(and storage, DACS)
[0.55 GtCO2/year]
Ocean Alkalinity enhancement
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage
(BECCS)
[0.55GtCO2/year]
束 Anthropogenic activities removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the
atmosphere and durably storing it in geological, terrestrial,
or ocean reservoirs, or in products (IPCC, 2021)
1 & 3 use photosynthesis to capture CO2
2 uses a chemical reaction for carbon capture
Potentials are in brackets for an assessment of sustainable global NET
potential in 2050 by Sabine Fuss et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 063002
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ENERGY-LAND: TIAM-FR X GLOBIOM
Soft-Link with GLOBIOM emulation:
Understand the Reference Land System
Determine the input parameters for TIAM-FR
GHG mitigation
Prices of GHG (12 prices in USD/tCO2eq)
Bioenergy prices : seven prices in USD/GJ
SSP2
Regional linkages
Constraints on land for forestry and agriculture
Emissions and removals
Land use evolution by type of cover with
GHG00 and BIO13 (Base scenario)