Conclusions
The strategy of bioenergy programs is to assist participants in expanding the use of economical, environmentally-sound bioenergy technologies. IEA Bioenergy was set up to facilitate, coordinate and maintain bioenergy research, development and demonstration through international cooperation and information exchange.
Demands on forests are growing, not only for wood and fiber but also in terms of environmental services, ecological functions, conservation of biodiversity, and economic development. Sustainable development is the balancing of these benefits today and in the future. Assessment of sustainability is based on the use of Criteria and Indicators of forest sustainability, and has led to the implementation of Adaptive Forest Management strategies and to the certification of management systems and forest products.
Recent global events affecting the energy sector are raising public awareness of biomass for energy production, particularly the environmental advantages of bioenergy as applied to the issue of global warming. Bioenergy production relates closely to issues of sustaining forest cover, slowing deforestation, regenerating natural forests, engaging in intensive forest management generally, and improving management of agricultural and rangeland soils. Economic advantages are perceived to be associated with development of biomass energy plantations, use of forest biomass that would otherwise be unmerchantable, and promotion of rural development. A major barrier to the increased use of wood energy is still the poor economic competitiveness of biofuels compared with fossil fuels. When the environmental and social benefits of wood energy are accounted for, utilization of forest biomass for the production of energy becomes environmentally, economically and socially justifiable.
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- Forest Management
- Kyoto Protocol
- Forest Biomass
- International Energy Agency
- Sustainable Forest Management
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Eriksson, H.M., Hall, J.P., Helynen, S. (2002). Rationale for Forest Energy Production. In: Richardson, J., Björheden, R., Hakkila, P., Lowe, A.T., Smith, C.T. (eds) Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry. Forestry Sciences, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47519-7_1
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