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Referenztyp Preprints
URL https://ssrn.com/abstract=4918193
Titel (primär) Policies for sustainable forest bioenergy in the EU: The renewable energy directive, the role of carbon pricing and implications for wood-cascading in the bioeconomy
Autor Schindler, H.; Merfort, L.; Lenz, V.; Majer, S.; Thrän, D.
Quelle SSRN
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
Department BIOENERGIE
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Abstract Using wood for energy continues to be controversial. Next to complex and sometimes paradoxical climate and biodiversity effects of forest bioenergy, the need to consider also economic and social sustainability goals make designing forest bioenergy policies a formidable challenge. We argue that the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive is unable to provide a systematic and comprehensive solution in the long run. Following the principle of cost-efficient climate change, an alternative policy approach to sustainable forest bioenergy can be derived. Such an approach, based on insights from different strands of economics, addresses market failures as root causes of non-sustainable forest bioenergy instead of its symptoms as it is the case today. Key elements of this approach are a price for greenhouse gas emissions from wood and subsidies for both, carbon storage in biomass and innovative bioenergy solutions. Even though implementing such a forest carbon policy faces several challenges of its own, this policy approach might contribute to substantially reducing the administrative costs not only of ensuring sustainable forest bioenergy, but also of enabling efficient wood cascading.
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Schindler, H., Merfort, L., Lenz, V., Majer, S., Thrän, D. (2024):
Policies for sustainable forest bioenergy in the EU: The renewable energy directive, the role of carbon pricing and implications for wood-cascading in the bioeconomy
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