A groundbreaking concept for achieving the goals for reduction of CO2 emissions

Abstract

- Sweden can become a leading, model country!

How can one in the most efficient manner mitigate today’s most serious global environmental threats? How can Sweden achieve the high targets established for it as regards carbon dioxide emission without the reduction measures negatively impacting taxation levels, financial growth and employment?

LKAB, Sveaskog AB, Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Norbotten County Council and The Federation of Swedish Farmers in Norbotten have jointly studied important experience from, amongst other places, Canada and China and have undertaken, themselves, and shared in academic research in this area. These diverse organisations have combined their resources to develop a new concept which can contribute to Sweden developing into a leading country in CO2 reduction!

A more efficient forest management, in combination with a system of tradable credits for carbon sink, can provide a markedly increased uptake and binding of carbon dioxide in the boreal forests. This implies, in a global perspective, that the investments necessary to reduce carbon dioxide will be undertaken where they are most cost efficient.

Put in another way, the Swedish forests’ capacity to bind carbon dioxide could each year, over a period of 50 years, be greater than the emissions from, for example, the entire transport sector in Sweden during the same period (measured with 2005 as the starting point).

Format: Workshop
Day: 2008-05-07
Time: 15:45 - 17:00
Place: Kammarsalen

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