Carbon Footprints and Sustainability of Biofuels
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 1461
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With two-thirds of the world aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by the mid-century, it would be hard to find a more relevant topic for a Special Issue. We also aim to discover the answer to a question with more scientific complication: what is carbon neutrality, anyway?
(1) Carbon footprints are a key criterium used by governments to regulate fuel markets. Transport fuels are well-covered in the developed world, heating fuels increasingly so, and the developing world is following suit. Footprints—often called carbon intensities—are meant to be ‘science-based’, but are they? Where is there consensus, where is there not, why, and can there ever be full consensus? Which fuels and which processes are more interesting and why? Is there a future for fossil fuels?
(2) The aim of this Special Issue is to examine the footprints of biofuels, either stood alone or in contrast to those applied to fossil fuels or renewables of a non-biological origin.
Sustainability publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes, with no restriction on the length of the papers. The journal’s aim is to encourage researchers to publish their experimental, computational, and theoretical research relating to natural and applied sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences, and humanities in detail to promote scientific and more general understanding and to permit predictions and impact assessments of global change and development related to sustainability.
(3) Some of the possible topics of the SI include:
- A review of applications or a single application;
- Impacts of footprints on markets and on GHG emissions;
- Methods of estimation/calculation;
- Case studies.
Dr. Eric Johnson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofuels
- carbon footprints
- carbon neutrality
- fuel footprints
- carbon intensities
