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SSS7.11 | Combining phytoremediation with energy crop production
EDI
Combining phytoremediation with energy crop production
Convener: Richard Lord | Co-conveners: Leonardo BianchiniECSECS, Oleksandra Tryboi, Maico Severino, Benjamin NunnECSECS
Combining phytoremediation with energy crop production offers a nature-based solution for managing soil contamination and delivering sustainable bioenergy. Biofuels are one of the few options for decarbonising transport in the short to medium term but are criticised for competing with food production and causing indirect land-use change. Meanwhile, significant areas of contaminated land remain unused or are unsuitable for food production. Using contaminated land for energy crop production offers a potential solution if soil contamination can be managed or addressed while producing sustainable biomass resources which are still suitable for use.
This session will examine the opportunities and challenges for achieving soil decontamination and phyto-management while growing high biomass productivity species such as perennial energy grasses. It will include the end of project results for field trials on contaminated soils in UK, Ukraine, Italy and Brazil as part of the CERESiS Project (This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101006717) one of three concurrent Horizon 2020 Projects on this topic.