Sustainability glossary

Displacement

Also called residue displacement

What happens when a fuel plant takes a waste or residue that someone else was already using: the former user must buy a replacement, often palm or soybean oil, and that replacement carries emissions. Consequential accounting counts this; attributional accounting does not.

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Wastes, residues and feedstocks

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