World trade in forest products and wood fuel |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University, PO Box 118, SE-221OO Lund, Sweden;2. Climate and Sustainable Cities, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, PO Box 21060, SE-100 31 Stockholm, Sweden;3. Physical Resource Theory, Department of Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden;1. Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria;2. BIOENERGY 2020+ GmbH, Gewerbepark Haag 3, 3250 Wieselburg-Land, Austria;1. Luleå University of Technology, Economics Unit, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden;2. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, SE-90736 Umeå, Sweden;3. Luleå University of Technology, Energy Engineering, Division of Energy Science, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden;1. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States;2. Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2;1. USDA Economic Research Service, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Mail Stop 1800, Washington, DC 20250, USA;2. Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 403 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA;3. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway;4. Department Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA |
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| Abstract: | Wood fuel is a strategic resource for future energy supply and is usually utilised locally. Traditional use of wood fuel and other bioenergy has a share of 10–15% energy supply, used mainly for the household sector. The utilisation for industrial purposes is much smaller but is a strategic resource in the effort to fulfil the Kyoto agreement to replace fossil fuels and to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Many industrialised countries already use a significant share of biofuels in their energy supply e.g. Nordic countries while others like some other European Union countries are planning to increase their use. Production and use of biofuels need to be carried out sustainable. Official statistics do not report trade in such detail that international trade in different biomass types can be fully identified. However, FAO and European Forestry Institute are important sources. In some countries, there is a growing interest in the international trade, because the trade can provide biofuels at lower prices, larger quantities and better quality than domestic alternatives. The first signs of an international market price for wood fuel are indicated in Europe. For the future both the use and the trade of wood fuel is expected to increase. Analyses for trade in charcoal, wood chips, fuel wood and wood residues made in this report identify ‘hot’ trade spots in Europe, in south East Asia and in North America. |
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