The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 sets out the trend toward decar-bonization, which calls for net zero GHG emissions by the latter half of this century.Along with this trend not a few countries have set ambitious emission reductiontargets to address it, and among them Japan officially set an 80% reduction target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 in the Plan for Global Warmin…
The PRC government has made development of rural biomass energy, specifically, an essential part of its long-term development strategy in rural areas. Most significantly, the Renewable Energy Law (effective January 2006) supports the development of bioenergy in all its forms—wind, solar, hydro, and biomass. The law calls for the exploration and use of bioenergy in rural areas and for local go…