Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify
biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (
biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using
biomass as a
feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».