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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 04 Jan 2021

Fossil fuel parity

The moment in time (the payback time) when the bioenergy system and the fossil reference have emitted the same amount of carbon.

JRC, 2014, European Commission, Joint Research Centre – IET, Carbon accounting of forest bioenergy : Conclusions and recommendations from a critical literature review, Agostini, A., Giuntoli, J., Boulamanti, A., Marelli, L., 2014, EUR 25354 EN, Luxembourg. Publications Office of the European Union, 2014.

Source category: EC Technical Documents