Navigating synergies and tradeoffs towards future forest-based solutions
The Swedish forest sector faces demands for increased carbon storage in the forest and changed management methods that result in reduced production, as well as potentially new – and large – consumers of forest raw materials.
Which combinations of industrial processes and product portfolios, CO2 capture and storage, and forestry work best to guarantee sustainable wood supply and increased climate benefits? This question forms the basis for system analyses of the Swedish forest sector and Sweden’s climate transition, based on detailed models for new and existing industrial processes, CO2 storage and forestry.
Different strategies are developed in collaboration with stakeholders in the sector. This means that the relevance of the studied alternatives is ensured and that there are channels for communicating, discussing and implementing the project’s results.
Göran Berndes
Chalmers University of Technology
goran.berndes@chalmers.se
Project information
Participants
Chalmers
Linnaeus University
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Time schedule
December 2023 - December 2027
Total cost of project
8 134 085 SEK
Swedish Energy Agency project number
2023-01087
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