Bioenergy is also a crucial element in the country's energy sector, supplying almost 20% of total primary energy consumption.
Among the proposals is for a series of demonstration sites to be set up to promote bioenergy best practice.
Of the various technologies available, bioenergy is assessed as having the biggest long-term potential for growth, followed by solar and wind power.
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"Only through a convergence of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and water-use policies can bioenergy find its proper environmental context and agricultural scale, " the report concludes.
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Dr Venter, a veteran of biotechnological scraps ranging from gene patenting to the private human-genome project, has been interested in bioenergy for a long time.
The potential consequences of this bioenergy accounting error are immense.
The second generation of bioenergy crops has the potential to produce more energy on poorer soils and with fewer inputs than any crops we use for energy now.
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The technology paper covers 10 technologies: bioenergy for electricity and heat, biofuels, geothermal energy, hydropower, ocean energy, solar energy (PV, concentrating solar, and solar heating), and wind (onshore and offshore).
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Wahaha in August signed a research cooperation agreement with the University of Nottingham in the UK in areas ranging from bioenergy technology to animal feed, robotics, electrical motors and food technologies.
The National Action Plan for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has aimed at a 30% increase in the use of bioenergy by 2010, according to Finland's Renewable Energy Policy Review in 2009.
He still is deeply invested in Africa, operating a fuel distribution network under the Oryx brand (but unaffiliated with the newly public company) as well as Addax Bioenergy, a biofuels operation in Sierra Leone.
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Biofuels have come to present a special problem because biogenic carbon is excluded from fossil-based caps as proposed to date even though (like most forms of bioenergy) their production is intrinsically coupled to terrestrial carbon stocks.
"The big barrier as far as bioenergy crops are concerned is a fear of the unknown in terms of soil carbon losses or gains - this is the gap we are trying to fill, " explained lead researcher Niall McNamara.
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Even if the country did increase its bioenergy crops and started doing a better job of collecting agricultural wastes for use as cellulosic ethanol feedstocks, the cost of biofuel production is still higher than the market would likely tolerate.
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"At this field site, we are very lucky to have two key bioenergy crops growing side-by-side, which is allowing us to make a comparison of their effects on soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from the soil, " he told BBC News.
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