Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion A and the other as Reason R. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Energy from biomass is treated as carbon neutral because the plants absorb during growth roughly the carbon released on burning.

The assertion about carbon neutrality correctly captures this balance.

Burning biomass does in fact release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the point of combustion.

The reason claims biomass adds no carbon dioxide at all, which is factually wrong.

Neutrality comes from balance over the growth cycle, not from zero emission at burning.

This balance holds only when the biomass is regrown, otherwise net emissions rise.