Växjö, Sweden 2017

Forest Modelling Workshop

10 January 2017, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

Hosted by: Linnaeus University

Objectives

To investigate the causes for differences in results and conclusions on the climate impacts of forest industry, including forest-based bioenergy, from two studies of apparently similar forest systems.

Major focus: Discsussion of the following papers:
Gustavsson, L., Haus, S., Lundblad, M., Lundström, A., Ortiz, C.A., Sathre, R., Le Truong, N. and Wikberg, P.E., 2017. Climate change effects of forestry and substitution of carbon-intensive materials and fossil fuels. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 67, pp.612-624.

Soimakallio, S., Saikku, L., Valsta, L. and Pingoud, K., 2016. Climate Change Mitigation Challenge for Wood Utilization – The Case of Finland. Environmental science & technology, 50(10), pp.5127-5134.

Workshop Program

• Short introduction including objectives of workshop and presentation of participants
• Presentation of the Finnish study (Soimakallio et al., 20016)
  • Sampo Soimakallio, with input from Tuomo Kalliokoski
• Presentation of the Swedish study (Gustavsson et al., 2016)
  • Leif Gustavsson (general overview and conclusions)
  • Per-Erik Wikberg (forest modelling)

With input from:

• Mattias Lundblad (forest management)
• Ambrose Dodoo (building modelling)
• Truong Nguyen (energy modelling)

• General discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches of the two studies, and identification of aspects for which further information is required, to gain a more complete understanding of the results of each study.
• Conclusion: Summary of the points of difference identified, and ideas for future work.

Participants