Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Cherubini, Francesco"
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Global climate impacts of forest bioenergy: what, when and how to measure?
Cherubini, Francesco; Bright, Ryan M.; Strømman, Anders Hammer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Environmental impact studies of forest bioenergy systems usually account for CO2 emissions and removals and identify the so-called carbon debt of bioenergy through comparison with a reference system. This approach is based ... -
A global daily evapotranspiration deficit index dataset for quantifying drought severity from 1979 to 2022
Zhang, Xia; Duan, Jianping; Cherubini, Francesco; Ma, Zhuguo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Droughts cause multiple ecological and social damages. Drought indices are key tools to quantify drought severity, but they are mainly limited to timescales of monthly or longer. However, shorter-timescale (e.g., daily) ... -
Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use
Jolliet, Olivier; Antón, Assumpció; Boulay, Anne-Marie; Cherubini, Francesco; Fantke, Peter; Levasseur, Annie; McKone, Thomas E.; Michelsen, Ottar; Milà i Canals, Llorenç; Motoshita, Masaharu; Pfister, Stephan; Verones, Francesca; Vigon, Bruce; Frischknecht, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose Guidance is needed on best-suited indicators to quantify and monitor the man-made impacts on human health, biodiversity and resources. Therefore, the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative initiated a global consensus ... -
Global spatially explicit CO2 emission metrics for forest bioenergy
Cherubini, Francesco; Huijbregts, Mark; Kindermann, Georg; Van Zelm, Rosalie; Van Der Velde, Marijn; Stadler, Konstantin; Strømman, Anders Hammer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Emission metrics aggregate climate impacts of greenhouse gases to common units such as CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq.). Examples include the global warming potential (GWP), the global temperature change potential (GTP) and the ... -
How do different nitrogen application levels and irrigation practices impact biological nitrogen fixation and its distribution in paddy system?
Zhang, Yanhui; Hu, Tianlong; Wang, Hui; Jin, Haiyang; Liu, Qi; Lin, Zhibin; Liu, Benjuan; Liu, Hongtao; Chen, Zhe; Lin, Xinwu; Wang, Xiaojie; Ma, Jing; Sun, Delin; Sun, Xiaoli; Tang, Haoye; Bei, Qicheng; Cherubini, Francesco; Arp, Hans Peter; Xie, Zubin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background and aims Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in paddy systems is impacted by nitrogen application levels and irrigation strategies, but the extent to which these factors influence BNF and its distribution in ... -
The impact of interventions in the global land and agri-food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
McElwee, Pamela; Calvin, Katherine; Campbell, Donovan; Cherubini, Francesco; Grassi, Giacomo; Korotkov, Vladimir; Le Hoang, Anh; Lwasa, Shuaib; Nkem, Johnson; Nkonya, Ephraim; Saigusa, Nobuko; Soussana, Jean‐Francois; Taboada, Miguel Angel; Manning, Frances C.; Nampanzira, Dorothy; Smith, Pete (Journal article, 2020)Interlocked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation require transformative interventions in the land management and food production sectors to reduce carbon emissions, strengthen adaptive ... -
Impacts of idealized land cover changes on climate extremes in Europe
Hu, Xiangping; Huang, Bo; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Extremes in climate and weather can pose significant challenges to economy, ecosystems and human health. Changes in land cover are one of the drivers for variability in frequency and magnitude of extreme climate at regional ... -
Integrate ecosystem services into socio-economic development to enhance achievement of sustainable development goals in the post-pandemic era
Yin, Caichun; Zhao, Wenwu; Cherubini, Francesco; Pereira, Paulo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled and rolled back progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ecosystem services (ESs), defined as the contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, underpin the achievement of SDGs. ... -
Integrating ex-ante and prospective life-cycle assessment for advancing the environmental impact analysis of emerging bio-based technologies
Rinke Dias de Souza, Nariê; Matt, Livia; Sedrik, Rauno; Vares, Lauri; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Unlike the fossil-based alternatives, many emerging bio-based technologies are still at the early lab or pilot scale and are not representative of optimized industrial conditions. This makes a robust comparison of their ... -
Integrating impacts on climate change and biodiversity from forest harvest in Norway
Iordan, Cristina Maria; Verones, Francesca; Cherubini, Francesco (Journal article, 2018)Forest ecosystems provide a variety of services, from climate regulation to biodiversity conservation. Temporary land cover variations such as those related to forest management can contribute to climate change through ... -
Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals
Vera, Ivan; Wicke, Birka; Lamers, Patrick; Cowie, Annette; Repo, Anna; Heukels, Bas; Zumpf, Colleen; Styles, David; Parish, Esther; Cherubini, Francesco; Berndes, Göran; Jager, Henriette; Schiesari, Luis; Junginger, Martin; Brandão, Miguel; Bentsen, Niclas Scott; Daioglou, Vassilis; Harris, Zoe; van der Hilst, Floor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bioenergy aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contribute to meeting global climate change mitigation targets. Nevertheless, several sustainability concerns are associated with bioenergy, especially related ... -
The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland
Næss, Jan Sandstad; Cavalett, Otávio; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Bioenergy is a key option in climate change mitigation scenarios. Growing perennial grasses on recently abandoned cropland is a near-term strategy for gradual bioenergy deployment with reduced risks for food security and ... -
LCA and negative emission potential of retrofitted cement plants under oxyfuel conditions at high biogenic fuel shares
Cavalett, Otávio; Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun; Fleiger, Kristina; Hoenig, Volker; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The implementation of oxyfuel carbon capture and storage technologies in combination with use of alternative fuels comprising high biogenic shares is promoted as an attractive climate change mitigation option for the cement ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Novel Bioplastics from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery – Integrated Production System of Polypropylene and Polyethylene Furanoate
Martikainen, Eero (Master thesis, 2022)This Thesis is a state-of-art study in which an integrated, raw material-efficient, biorefinery production system was designed for the combined production of bio-PP and PET. The aim was to find out how the environmental ... -
Life cycle assessment of sewage sludge treatment methods for negative emissions and abatement of hazardous contaminants
Rognan, Marit Salome (Master thesis, 2021)Behandling og bruk av avløpsslam utnytter generelt ikke all energien og næringsstoffene som finnes i slammet, og fører dessuten til utslipp av klimagasser og forurensende stoffer. Denne studien studerer behandlingsmetoder ... -
Life-Cycle Assessment of a biogas power plant with application of different climate metrics and inclusion of near-term climate forcers
Iordan, Cristina Maria (Master thesis, 2016)In this project we investigate the environmental sustainability associated with the production of electricity through anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge and other organic wastes under Norwegian conditions. We provide ... -
Life-Cycle Assessment of alternative bio-fuelled cement plants for negative emissions
Heggvoll, Solveig (Master thesis, 2020)Sementindustrien star for store mengder CO ˚ 2-utslipp arlig, og er i dag ansvarlig for om lag ˚ 8% av de globale menneskeskapte CO2-utslippene. Ettersom behovet for sement er antatt a øke i ˚ arene fremover er det viktig ... -
Life-cycle assessment to unravel co-benefits and trade-offs of large-scale biochar deployment in Norwegian agriculture
Tisserant, Alexandre; Morales, Marjorie; Cavalett, Otávio; O'Toole, Adam; Weldon, Simon Mark; Rasse, Daniel; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Limiting temperature rise below 2 °C requires large deployment of Negative Emission Technologies (NET) to capture and store atmospheric CO2. Compared to other types of NETs, biochar has emerged as a mature option to store ... -
Meta-analysis of leaf area index, canopy height and root depth of three bioenergy crops and their effects on land surface modeling
Urrego, Johana Paola Forero; Huang, Bo; Næss, Jan Sandstad; Hu, Xiangping; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The expected large-scale expansion of biofuel production in climate change mitigation scenarios calls for improvements in the representation of bioenergy crops in land surface models. Leaf area index (LAI), canopy height ...