Biomass : a growth opportunity in green energy and value-added products : proceedings of the 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas : Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California, USA, August 29-September 2, 1999
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Biomass : a growth opportunity in green energy and value-added products : proceedings of the 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas : Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California, USA, August 29-September 2, 1999
Pergamon, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Hardbound. Since biomass and bioenergy are global issues, it is no surprise that each year there are contributions from countries all over the world. Contributions from South America have been increasing ever since conference inception in 1993, and it is particularly pleasing to note the extensive contributions to this volume from Brazil.Between the Third Biomass Conference of the Americas and this one, two conferences of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) occurred. In December of 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, COP3 established a list of mainly industrialized countries committed to a range of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions by 2008 to 2010. These countries included all 29 countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change is investigating how biomass, bioenergy, and the biosphere fit into the question of GHG mitigation. A s
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