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