GCB Bioenergy

About this Journal

GCB Bioenergy exists to promote understanding of the interface between biological sciences and the production of fuels directly from plants, algae and waste.

The journal focuses on topics in the context of biological implications:

• Bioenergy feedstock production, genetics and genomics
• Pests, diseases and weeds of feedstock
• Land-use change, including biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Oils from algae and crops
• Microbial deconstruction of lignocellulose
• Systems biology of feedstock production, microbial deconstruction and fuel synthesis
• Carbon mitigation
  
  

Online Submissions Welcome
Submit your manuscript electronically to GCBBioenergy through ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly known as Manuscript Central). Benefits of online submission include:
• Quick and easy submission
• Centralised and reduced administration
• Significant decrease in peer review times

No page charges or submission fees
There are no page charges to publish your manuscript in GCB Bioenergy, and no fees for submitting your work to the journal.
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Recent press releases about GCB Bioenergy papers include:

Biochar slashes bioenergy soil emissions
Summary paragraph (for homepage): Adding charcoal to land used to grow bioenergy crops can greatly increase their overall benefit in helping cut our greenhouse-gas emissions, scientists have shown.
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Benefits of biofuel use on environment overestimated
Calculations of greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions from bioenergy production are neglecting crucial information that has led to the overestimation of the benefits of biofuels compared to fossil fuels...
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Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality
The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in the use of wood, harvested directly from forests, as a carbon-neutral energy source...
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The Ethics of Biofuels
An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy outlines a framework for evaluating biofuels in order to address ethical issues surrounding the rapidly evolving race to develop biofuels...
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GCB Bioenergynow publishes podcasts! Listen to the latest one by clicking play below.

The Ethics of Biofuels
Professor Joyce Tait, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Biofuels, and Scientific Adviser to the Innogen Centre at Edinburgh University, discusses the Council’s proposed development of a comprehensive ethical standard for biofuels. Professor Tait is interviewed by Jody Endres, a senior attorney at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois.

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