In comparison with combustion of coal, biomass may also be
regarded as climate neutral, provided that the comparison includes
also additional emissions from mining/harvesting, transport,
leakage, etc., and state-of-the-art production and combustion
technology for forest biomass.amed “carbon debt” and it is frequently used in the debate.
However, the limited scope of the studies behind “carbon debt”
means that effects on the biomass production and on forest vitality
are ignored. Thus, those studies have been based on models in
which only one function (harvested products) of forests is included
but not considering the other (dynamic growth “apparatus”) These
limitations of the approach have resulted in misleading conclusions.
An approach by Ref. [10] with analyses on the “Landscape