Wood is associated with positive benefits in respect to climate change mitigation. However, due to a lack of comparable evaluation method, the magnitude of benefits is unclear. This dissertation addresses the development a methodology towards the reproducible assessment of environmental impacts of wood and wood energy and applies these methods onto heating in the case study region of Bavaria. Here, the role of wood heating was assessed via Life Cycle Assessments of the current and future shares of energy carriers, stipulated by policies and scientific projections, in the Bavarian heating mix. In order to identify mitigation potentials, displacement factors for all assessed wood heating systems were determined and a transferable methodology for the calculation of displacement factors, which is adaptable to other regions, was proposed.
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Wood is associated with positive benefits in respect to climate change mitigation. However, due to a lack of comparable evaluation method, the magnitude of benefits is unclear. This dissertation addresses the development a methodology towards the reproducible assessment of environmental impacts of wood and wood energy and applies these methods onto heating in the case study region of Bavaria. Here, the role of wood heating was assessed via Life Cycle Assessments of the current and future shares...
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