213900 Sustainability Indicators - a Review of the Literature

Wednesday, March 16, 2011: 8:10 AM
Columbus EF (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Helena Chum1, Ethan Warner2, Yimin Zhang2, Garvin Heath2, Maggie Mann2, Alison goss Eng3, Goeran Berndes4 and Kim Pingoud5, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)Strategic Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (3)Office of the Biomass Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, (4)Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, Göteborg, Sweden, (5)VTT, Helsinki, Finland

Sustainability Indicators - A Review of the Literature

We will present the results of an analyses of indicators of GHG emissions and other characteristics of several chains of biofuels and bioenergy products.  How multiple indicators are more robust for the selection of feedstocks, conversion process, end products.


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