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Overview

Göran Berndes is affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and primarily focuses on research within Environmental Science. Their expertise spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research concentrates on key topics relevant to energy and sustainability, such as bioenergy crop production and management, environmental impact and sustainability, biofuel production and bioconversion, forest management and policy, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, integrated energy systems optimization, and global energy and sustainability research.

Göran Berndes has authored several recent papers, contributing to ongoing scientific discussions in bioenergy and climate mitigation:

  • Bioenergy for climate change mitigation: Scale and sustainability, 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • Concerns about reported harvests in European forests, 2021, Nature
  • Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy, 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals, 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • On the role of forests and the forest sector for climate change mitigation in Sweden, 2022, GCB Bioenergy

The work has been published frequently in the venues GCB Bioenergy, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment, Nature Energy, and Biomass and Bioenergy. GCB Bioenergy stands out as a primary publication outlet with multiple contributions.

Collaborations are an integral part of their research approach, with frequent coauthors including Annette Cowie, Gustaf Egnell, Christel Cederberg, Hans Petersson, and David Ellison. These collaborative relationships indicate engagement with experts across complementary fields, further reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of their work.

Best Publications

  • The contribution of biomass in the future global energy supply: a review of 17 studies

    Göran Berndes;Monique Hoogwijk;Richard van den Broek

  • Exploration of the ranges of the global potential of biomass for energy

    Monique Hoogwijk;André Faaij;Richard van den Broek;Göran Berndes

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • How much land based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals

    Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Alexander Popp;Karl Heinz Erb

  • How much land is needed for global food production under scenarios of dietary changes and livestock productivity increases in 2030

    Stefan Wirsenius;Christian Azar;Göran Berndes

  • Bioenergy and water - the implications of large-scale bioenergy production for water use and supply.

    Göran Berndes

  • Jatropha cultivation in southern India: assessing farmers experiences

    Lisa Axelsson;Maria A M Franzén;Madelene Ostwald;Göran Berndes

  • Biofuel production potentials in Europe: sustainable use of cultivated land and pastures. Part II: Land use scenarios

    Günther Fischer;Sylvia Prieler;Harrij van Velthuizen;Göran Berndes

  • Bioenergy: a sustainable and reliable energy source. A review of status and prospects.

    A. Bauen;G. Berndes;M. Junginger;M. Londo

  • The revision of the Brazilian Forest Act: increased deforestation or a historic step towards balancing agricultural development and nature conservation?

    Gerd Sparovek;Göran Berndes;Alberto Giaroli de Oliveira Pereira Barretto;Israel Leoname Fröhlich Klug

  • Brazilian Agriculture and Environmental Legislation: Status and Future Challenges

    Gerd Sparovek;Göran Berndes;Israel L. F. Klug;Alberto G. O. P. Barretto

  • Agricultural intensification in Brazil and its effects on land‐use patterns: an analysis of the 1975–2006 period

    Alberto G. O. P. Barretto;Göran Berndes;Gerd Sparovek;Stefan Wirsenius

  • Bioenergy expansion in the EU: Cost-effective climate change mitigation, employment creation and reduced dependency on imported fuels

    Göran Berndes;Julia Hansson

  • Co-firing biomass with coal for electricity generation—An assessment of the potential in EU27

    Julia Hansson;Göran Berndes;Filip Johnsson;Jan Kjärstad

  • Advanced biofuel production via gasification – lessons learned from 200 man-years of research activity with Chalmers’ research gasifier and the GoBiGas demonstration plant

    Henrik Thunman;Martin Seemann;Teresa Berdugo Vilches;Jelena Maric

  • Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Bioenergy

    Helena Chum;Andre Faaij;José Moreira;Göran Berndes

  • The prospects for willow plantations for wastewater treatment in Sweden

    Pål Börjesson;Göran Berndes

  • How to analyse ecosystem services in landscapes—A systematic review

    Oskar Englund;Göran Berndes;Christel Cederberg

  • Forest biomass, carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation

    Göran Berndes;Bob Abt;Antti Asikainen;Annette Cowie

  • Bioenergy - A Sustainable and Reliable Energy Source

    M. Mozaffarian;H.M. Londo;A Faaij;G. Berndes

  • Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals

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  • Bioenergy, Land Use Change and Climate Change Mitigation: Background Technical Report

    Goran Berndes;Neil Bird;Annette Cowie

Frequent Co-Authors

Pål Börjesson
Pål Börjesson Lund University
Annette Cowie
Annette Cowie University of New England
Martin Junginger
Martin Junginger Utrecht University
Christian Azar
Christian Azar Chalmers University of Technology
Filip Johnsson
Filip Johnsson Chalmers University of Technology
André Faaij
André Faaij Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
N. H. Ravindranath
N. H. Ravindranath Indian Institute of Science
Blas Mola-Yudego
Blas Mola-Yudego University of Eastern Finland
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Göran I. Ågren
Göran I. Ågren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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