US Agriculture under Climate Change: An Examination of Climate Change Effects on Ease of Achieving RFS2

<table class="table-group" id="tab9"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left" rowspan="2">Scenario</td><td align="center" colspan="2">RFS2 mandate</td><td align="center" colspan="3">Climate change</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="center">Switchgrass</td><td align="center">Energy sorghum</td><td align="center">None</td><td align="center">Hadley</td><td align="center">Canadian</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">RFS2-ES</td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">RFS2HC-ES</td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">RFS2CC-ES</td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td align="center"><i>√</i></td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="6"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

RFS2 scenarios for sensitivity analysis on energy crops mix.

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Table 9: US Agriculture under Climate Change: An Examination of Climate Change Effects on Ease of Achieving RFS2 