scholarly journals Bioenergy production and utilization in different sectors in Sweden: A state of the art review

BioResources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 9834-9857
Author(s):  
Stephen O. Amiandamhen ◽  
Anuj Kumar ◽  
Stergios Adamopoulos ◽  
Dennis Jones ◽  
Bengt Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Bioenergy Production ◽  
Greenhouse Gases Emissions ◽  
Environmental Footprints ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
Change Mitigation

In the continual desire to reduce the environmental footprints of human activities, research efforts to provide cleaner energy is increasingly becoming vital. The effect of climate change on present and future existence, sustainable processes, and utilizations of renewable resources have been active topics within international discourse. In order to reduce the greenhouse gases emissions from traditional materials and processes, there has been a shift to more environmental friendly alternatives. The conversion of biomass to bioenergy, including biofuels has been considered to contribute to the future of climate change mitigation, although there are concerns about carbon balance from forest utilization. Bioenergy accounts for more than one-third of all energy used in Sweden and biomass has provided about 60% of the fuel for district heating. Apart from heat and electricity supply, the transport sector, with about 30% of global energy use, has a significant role in a sustainable bioenergy system. This review presents the state of the art in the Swedish bioenergy sector based on literature and Swedish Energy Agency’s current statistics. The review also discusses the overall bioenergy production and utilization in different sectors in Sweden. The current potential, challenges, and environmental considerations of bioenergy production are also discussed.

scholarly journals Impacts of global climate change mitigation scenarios on forests and harvesting in Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1427-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Nordström ◽  
Nicklas Forsell ◽  
Anders Lundström ◽  
Anu Korosuo ◽  
Johan Bergh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
National Level ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Biomass Resources ◽  
Supply Potential ◽  
Change Mitigation

Under climate change, the importance of biomass resources is likely to increase and new approaches are needed to analyze future material and energy use of biomass globally and locally. Using Sweden as an example, we present an approach that combines global and national land-use and forest models to analyze impacts of climate change mitigation ambitions on forest management and harvesting in a specific country. National forest impact analyses in Sweden have traditionally focused on supply potential with little reference to international market developments. In this study, we use the global greenhouse gas concentration scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change to estimate global biomass demand and assess potential implications on harvesting and biodiversity in Sweden. The results show that the short-term demand for wood is close to the full harvesting potential in Sweden in all scenarios. Under high bioenergy demand, harvest levels are projected to stay high over a longer time and particularly impact the harvest levels of pulpwood. The area of old forest in the managed landscape may decrease. This study highlights the importance of global scenarios when discussing national-level analysis and pinpoints trade-offs that policy making in Sweden may need to tackle in the near future.

scholarly journals Assessment of climate change mitigation potential of the Macedonian transport sector

Energy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Dedinec ◽  
Natasa Markovska ◽  
Verica Taseska ◽  
Neven Duic ◽  
Gligor Kanevce
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Factors of Change: The influence of policy environment factors on climate change mitigation strategies in the transport sector

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Lah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Policy Stability

There is a large potential for cost-effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to improve the sustainability of the transport sector that is yet unexploited, in particular in the urban context. Considering the cost-effectiveness and the potential for co-benefits, it is hard to understand why energy gains and mitigation action in the transport sector is still lagging behind the potential. Particularly interesting is the fact that there is substantial difference among countries with relatively similar economic performances, such as the OECD countries in the development of their transport CO2 emission over the past thirty years despite the fact that these countries had relatively similar access to efficient technologies and vehicles. This study aims to apply some well established political science theories on the particular example of climate change mitigation in the transport sector in order to identify some of the factors that could help explain the variations in success of policies and strategies in this sector. The analysis suggests that institutional arrangements that contribute to consensus building in the political process provide a high level of political and policy stability which is vital to long-term changes in energy end-use sectors that rely on long-term investments. However, there is no direct correlation between institutional structures, e.g. corporatism and success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector. Environmental objectives need to be built into the consensus-based policy structure before actual policy progress can be observed. This usually takes longer in consensus democracies than in politically more agile majoritarian policy environments, but the policy stability that builds on corporatist institutional structures is likely to experience changes over a longer-term, in this case to a shift towards low-carbon transport that endures.

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