Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Chapter 7

The climate mitigation potential of managed versus unmanaged spruce and beech forests in Central Europe

Ernst D. Schulze¹, Inge Stupak² and Dominik Hessenmöller³,    ¹Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany,    ²Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,    ³Thuringia Forest Service, Schmalkalden, Germany

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has promised to cut its energy consumption by 20% by 2020. As a result, the use of petroleum products has continually decreased, and the use of renewable energy sources has increased. For the EU as a whole, however, the use of wood for energy has been fairly constant, even if its use has increased in several countries, for ...