Uppsala, Sweden 1997

 Implementation Of Solid Biofuels For Carbon Dioxide Mitigation

Task 25: Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bioenergy Systems

29-30 September 1997 – Uppsala, Sweden

Jointly organized by

The conference was organized within the EU funded ALTENER project
“Evaluating Biofuels as a Means of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Mitigation”
and within IEA Bioenergy Task XV “Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bioenergy Systems”.

Workshop Program

29 September 1997

Opening Session

Göran Lönner, Department of Forest-Industry-Market Studies, SLU, Sweden
Welcoming address

Emmanuel Xenakis, responsible for bioenergy at ALTENER, Brussels
Strategy for renewable energy in EU and the proposed ALTENER II program

Kakan Staaf, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Sweden´s strategy for biofuels and carbon dioxide mitigation

Systems´perspectives on biofuels

Folke Bohlin, Department of Forest-Industry-Market Studies, SLU, Sweden
Greenhouse economics and Biofuels

Antti Korpilahti, Metsäteho Oy., Finland
Finnish forest energy systems and CO2 consequences

Bo Hektor, Department of Forest-Industry-Market Studies, SLU, Sweden
Cost Effectiveness of Measures for the Reduction of net Accumulation of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere

Gerfried Jungmeier, Joanneum Research, Austria
Environmental burdens over the entire life cycle of a biomass CHO plant

Economics of biofuels

Paul Morthorst, Systems analysis department, Risø Lab. Denmark
The cost of reducing CO2-emissions – methodological approach, illustrated by an empirical case study

Willy Makundi, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA
Sustainable forest management and carbon offset projects

Haydn Scholes, CSM Associates Ltd., England
Can energy crops become a viable fuel source for electricity generation in South-West England?

Birgitte Holm Christensen, Centre for Biomass Technology, Denmark
Danish straw. Market opportunities, economic evaluation and environmental aspects

Folke Bohlin, Department of Forest-Industry-Market Studies, SLU, Sweden
Improving the economic outlook for biofuels – the Swedish carbon dioxide tax

Marjoleine Hanegraf, CLM, Netherlands
Ecological andsocio-economic sustainability of energy crops

30 September 1997

Carbon dioxide and other environmental impacts of biofuels

David Hall, King´s College, London, England
Will biomass be the environmentally friendly fuel of the future?

Hannes Schwaiger and Bernhard Schlamadinger, Joanneum Research, Austria
GHG mitigation potential of increased fuelwood use in Europe in 2020

Guido Reinhart, IFEU, Germany
Solid biofuels versus conventional fuels: latest results on full energy comparisons concerning energy and greenhouse gases

Xavier Dubuisson and Ivan Sintzoff, Universite Catholique de Louvan-la Neuve, Belgium
Energy and CO2 balances in different power generation routes from cultivated wood

William Deraedt and Reinhart Ceulemans, University of Antwerpen, Belgium
Carbon balance and energy conversion efficiency of a short rotation coppiced poplar culture

Anna Lundborg, Vattenfall, Sweden
Swedish forest fuels: environmental opportunities and risks

Lars Christersson, Department of Short Rotation Forestry, SLU, Sweden
Energy forestry and its environmental consequences

Field trip

• Field visit to short-rotation coppice, hosted by Agrobränsle, commercial energy crop company
• Field visit to Brista, new biomass-fired CHP plant. Hosted by plant management

List of Participants

Workshop Proceedings

The proceedings of this workshop have been published as
1998 Special Issue of Biomass and Bioenergy, 15 (4/5), 1998.
Moreover, a Summary Statement of this workshop can be obtained from:
Folke Bohlin, P.O.Box 7054, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
e-mail: folke.bohlin@sims.slu.se
Phone: +46 18 673 521
Fax: +46 18 673 522