Biogenic carbon

Carbon that a plant recently pulled out of the air through photosynthesis, as opposed to fossil carbon locked underground for millions of years. Most frameworks treat biogenic CO₂ released on combustion as neutral, because the next crop reabsorbs it.

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Core accounting concepts

• Accounting credit
• Additionality
• Attributional accounting
• Avoided-emissions credit
• Buffer pool
• Carbon accounting
• Carbon neutral
• Carbon removal
• Central estimate
• Consequential accounting
• Counterfactual
• Cradle-to-grave
• Direct emissions
• Embodied emissions
• Emissions
• Indirect emissions
• Induced effects
• Life cycle
• Life cycle assessment
• Net-negative
• Net-zero
• Offset
• Permanence and reversal
• Process CO₂ capture
• Stoichiometric estimate
• System boundary
• Well-to-tank, tank-to-wheel and well-to-wheel