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Biofuels Utilisation: An Attempt to Reduce GHG’s and Mitigate Climate Change

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Use of biomass for energy and industry allows a significant quantity of hydrocarbons to be consumed without increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere and, thus, makes a positive contribution to the Greenhouse effect and to the problems of ‘global change’ as it occurs in both industrialized and developing countries. Climate change is any long-term significant change in average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It takes place due to emissions of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important greenhouse gas and increasing the use of biomass for energy is an important option for reducing CO2 emissions. Carbon dioxide emission is projected to grow from 5.8 billion tonnes carbon equivalent in 1990 to 7.8 billion tonnes in 2010 and 9.8 billion tonnes by 2020.

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Acknowledgments

The constant encouragement of Professor Dr K.H. Neumann is gratefully acknowledged. His frequent visits witnessed the development of the wasteland into a green land. The support from Professor Dr. Sven Schubert Institut fur Pflanzenernaehrung der Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen, Germany, and research grant by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Financial Support from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India to Professor Ashwani Kumar and guidance from Professor A.K. Sharma, Kolkatta and Dr Renu Swarup and Dr Meenakshi Munshi , DBT is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Sunil Nautiyal

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  3. Landscape Research, Institute of Socioeconomics, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural, Eberswalder Str 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany

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Kumar, A. (2013). Biofuels Utilisation: An Attempt to Reduce GHG’s and Mitigate Climate Change. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_13

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