IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipt/iptwpa/jrc122379.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Biomass flows in the European Union: EU Biomass Flows tool, version 2020

Author

Listed:

Abstract

The EU Biomass Flows tool provides a representation of harmonised data from the various Joint Research Centre (JRC) units contributing to the BIOMASS Assessment study of the JRC . It represents the flows of biomass for each sector of the bioeconomy, from supply to uses including trade. The diagram enables deeper analysis and comparison of the different countries and sectors across a defined time series. The former EU Biomass Flows tool was released in 2017 and has been used in multiple research activities and publications. Since its publication, the flexibility, analysis capabilities and user experience of the interactive tool have been improved. The new EU Biomass Flows tool was created based on the Energy Flows tool from Eurostat. The EU Biomass Flows tool displays biomass flows in Sankey diagrams and it relies on the methodology to extract and integrate data developed for the former EU Biomass Flows tool. The new tool offers also an increased granularity of data for some biomass types: crop and residue production can now be shown in crop categories, animal- and plant-based food can be disaggregated into their nutrients. It has also significantly improved the visualisation of the data in charts and graphs, as well as enabling visibility of the evolution over time. Finally, users can download the full or a partial set of data. In this document, we summarise the sources and data transformation steps to create the database used to represent these biomass flows, as well as the main data gaps and challenges encountered. We also briefly discuss the main features and functionalities of the new EU Biomass Flows tool. Finally, we present some insights based on the represented data and potential future research opportunities.

Suggested Citation

  • Patricia Gurria Albusac & Hugo Gonzalez Hermoso & Tevecia Ronzon & Saulius Tamosiunas & Raul Lopez & Sara Garcia Condado & Giulia Ronchetti & Jordi Guillen & Manjola Banja & Gianluca Fiore & Robert M’, 2020. "Biomass flows in the European Union: EU Biomass Flows tool, version 2020," JRC Research Reports JRC122379, Joint Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc122379
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122379
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Manfred Lenzen & Lise-Lotte Pade & Jesper Munksgaard, 2004. "CO2 Multipliers in Multi-region Input-Output Models," Economic Systems Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 391-412.
    2. Manzone, Marco & Paravidino, Elisa & Bonifacino, Gabriella & Balsari, Paolo, 2016. "Biomass availability and quality produced by vineyard management during a period of 15 years," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 465-471.
    3. Guillotreau, P. & Péridy, N., 2000. "Trade barriers and European imports of seafood products: a quantitative assessment," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 24(5), pages 431-437, September.
    4. Guillotreau, Patrice, 2004. "How does the European seafood industry stand after the revolution of salmon farming: An economic analysis of fish prices," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 227-233, May.
    5. Tévécia Ronzon & Stephan Piotrowski & Michael Carus, 2015. "DataM Biomass estimates (v3): a new database to quantify biomass availability in the European Union," JRC Research Reports JRC96246, Joint Research Centre.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Marek Wieruszewski & Katarzyna Mydlarz, 2022. "The Potential of the Bioenergy Market in the European Union—An Overview of Energy Biomass Resources," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(24), pages 1-23, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Patricia Gurria & Tevecia Ronzon & Saulius Tamosiunas & Raul Lopez & Sara Garcia Condado & Jordi Guillen & Noemi Cazzaniga & Ragnar Jonsson & Manjola Banja & Gianluca Fiore & Andrea Camia & Robert M'B, 2017. "Biomass flows in the European Union: The Sankey biomass diagram - towards a cross-set integration of biomass," JRC Research Reports JRC106502, Joint Research Centre.
    2. François-Charles Wolff & Frédéric Salladarré, 2022. "A first-sale price index of seafood products," Post-Print hal-03913085, HAL.
    3. Stefan Ederer & Stefan Weingärtner, 2014. "Structural Disparities in Carbon Dioxide Consumption and Trade in the World Economy. WWWforEurope Policy Paper No. 16," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 47498, August.
    4. Gabriela Michalek & Reimund Schwarze, 2015. "Carbon leakage: pollution, trade or politics?," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 17(6), pages 1471-1492, December.
    5. Piñero, Pablo & Heikkinen, Mari & Mäenpää, Ilmo & Pongrácz, Eva, 2015. "Sector aggregation bias in environmentally extended input output modeling of raw material flows in Finland," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 217-229.
    6. Tiago Florindo & Ana I. Ferraz & Ana C. Rodrigues & Leonel J. R. Nunes, 2022. "Residual Biomass Recovery in the Wine Sector: Creation of Value Chains for Vine Pruning," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-18, May.
    7. Roca, Jordi & Serrano, Monica, 2007. "Income growth and atmospheric pollution in Spain: An input-output approach," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 230-242, June.
    8. Jukka Heinonen & Seppo Junnila, 2011. "A Carbon Consumption Comparison of Rural and Urban Lifestyles," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 3(8), pages 1-16, August.
    9. O’Donoghue, Cathal & Chyzheuskaya, Aksana & Grealis, Eoin & Finnegan, William & Goggin, Jamie & Hynes, Stephen & Kilcline, Kevin & Ryan, Mary, 2018. "Measuring GHG Emissions Across the Agri-Food Sector Value Chain: The Development of BIO - a Bio-economy Input- Output Model," 2018 International European Forum (163rd EAAE Seminar), February 5-9, 2018, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria 276856, International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks.
    10. Freire-González, Jaume, 2017. "Evidence of direct and indirect rebound effect in households in EU-27 countries," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 270-276.
    11. Guo, Shan & Li, Yilin & Hu, Yunhao & Xue, Fan & Chen, Bin & Chen, Zhan-Ming, 2020. "Embodied energy in service industry in global cities: A study of six Asian cities," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    12. Jukka Heinonen & Antti-Juhani Säynäjoki & Matti Kuronen & Seppo Junnila, 2012. "Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 5(8), pages 1-20, August.
    13. Kai Yin & Dengsheng Lu & Yichen Tian & Qianjun Zhao & Chao Yuan, 2014. "Evaluation of Carbon and Oxygen Balances in Urban Ecosystems Using Land Use/Land Cover and Statistical Data," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-27, December.
    14. Yu, Dejian & Xu, Chao, 2017. "Mapping research on carbon emissions trading: a co-citation analysis," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 1314-1322.
    15. Su, Bin & Ang, B.W., 2014. "Attribution of changes in the generalized Fisher index with application to embodied emission studies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 778-786.
    16. Cong, Rong-Gang & Stefaniak, Irena & Madsen, Bjarne & Dalgaard, Tommy & Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård & Nainggolan, Doan & Termansen, Mette, 2017. "Where to implement local biotech innovations? A framework for multi-scale socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of Green Bio-Refineries," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C), pages 141-151.
    17. Zhou, Dequn & Zhou, Xiaoyong & Xu, Qing & Wu, Fei & Wang, Qunwei & Zha, Donglan, 2018. "Regional embodied carbon emissions and their transfer characteristics in China," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 180-193.
    18. Cristiano Cantore & Miguel León-Ledesma & Peter McAdam & Alpo Willman, 2014. "Shocking Stuff: Technology, Hours, And Factor Substitution," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 12(1), pages 108-128, February.
    19. Wiedmann, Thomas, 2009. "A first empirical comparison of energy Footprints embodied in trade -- MRIO versus PLUM," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(7), pages 1975-1990, May.
    20. Sato, Misato, 2014. "Product level embodied carbon flows in bilateral trade," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 106-117.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Biomass; Bioeconomy; Sankey; Agriculture; Food; Feed; Forestry; Woody biomass; Fisheries; Aquaculture; Bioenergy; Biofuel; Flow diagram;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc122379. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Publication Officer (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipjrces.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.