Proceedings World Bioenergy 2010

4. SWEDEN FIRST COUNTRY TO DECOUPLE
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GHG-EMISSIONS
This slide shows blue curve: the economic growth in
Sweden, red curve: emission of Green House Gases,
GHG. Green curve: development of Bioenergy in
Sweden.
5. POSSIBILITIES FOR GOOD DEVELOPMENT IN
MOST OTHER COUNTRIES
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5.1 Domestic fossil fuels
Domestic fossil fuels in a country make it harder for the
parliament to agree on important decisions like carbon
dioxide tax, deposit fees on coal ash etc. However the
actual situation for development and economic growth in
a country with domestic fossil fuels are not less than in a
country like Sweden that lack the resource of fossil fuel.
5.2 Industry propagating for oil or coal
The national debate and company interest are more
difficult to handle than in the Swedish situation but it is
not a reason for not making the right decisions.
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5.3 Lots of forests and other raw material.
There are always various opportunities to use energy
more efficient. Combined heat and power is extremely
profitable compared to wasting heat when producing
power and buy the heat separately.
There is a lot more forest globally than most of us
believes. Professor Pekka Kauppi University of Helsinki
has calculated figures from FAO reports and will share
his knowledge about expanding forests in session A1
“Raw material availability and market development”. In
this session we will also be able to hear about wastes like
old rubber trees from Liberia used in European coal
power stations. There are by-products or wastes
everywhere many of which profitably could be used for
energy production. Olive residues, kernels and pruning,
citrus pulp, palm kernels, sunflower husks, almond shells,
straw, saw dust, manure, land fill gas, forest residues and
million hectares of additional arable land for food, feed
or energy production. World Bioenergy 2010 will give
hundreds of opportunities to discuss possible and
impossible ideas for further development and
investments. Different solutions are available
everywhere.
5.4 A clear and simple policy
Finally I would like to emphases that a clear and simple,
understandable policy is a good way to have the whole
society moving in the right direction. It is not sufficient to
reach the 2020 target. We need good policy to solve the
sustainability problems. Carbon tax is one simple and
understandable measure with the benefit to strike towards
use of fossil fuels getting us closer the overall goal -
stopping the climate change. The Swedish Bioenergy
Association ask you to help us to argue for a global
carbon dioxide tax and a floor price on emission trading
rights making emitters pay for damages caused by carbon
dioxide. Sweden has showed that polluter pays principle
is an efficient and simple way to increase the use of
profitable renewable energy.
In some decades we are heading for 100 per cent
renewables – It can be done!
Svebio and Elmia wish you most welcome to Jönköping
and the World of Bioenergy.