Background:

Currently, state-of-the-art modelling approaches for developing climate neutrality scenarios do not include the agriculture and forestry sectors explicitly, therefore neglecting the trade-off between biomass use and increasing carbon sinks.

Research Objectives:

- Determining which amounts of biomass can cost-effectively contribute to reaching climate neutrality in the European Union (EU)

- Estimating the trade-off between carbon sinks and use of biomass for fossil fuel replacement

- Understanding differences for country carbon balances, under different assumptions about how the land-use, land-use change and forestry sectors are accounted for within the EU

Methods:

We expand the energy system model pypsa-eur to incorporate the agricultural and forestry sectors for the whole of the EU. Integrate this model with the model in the second, PhD project to develop full EU climate neutrality scenarios.

Indicate the state-of-the-art and describe why the project is beyond state-of-the art and how it will lead to new insights and potential discoveries.

Where to apply:

https://www.circularbioengineering.at/

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