Energy

Bioenergy from boreal forests: Swedish approach to sustainable wood use

Active forest management has helped to expand Sweden’s forested areas and thereby boost the country’s wood and bioenergy resource base. While about three-quarters of annual growth is harvested, those areas are replanted. The other quarter of each year’s growth is left in place to provide ongoing carbon uptake and maintain ecological stability.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2019
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Tags:
Biomass, Forests, Sweden, Wood, Forest Management, Carbon Dioxide
Climate Change

Ten countries back EU 2050 net-zero emissions goal

Ministers from ten EU countries have urged the European Commission to chart a “credible and detailed” path towards net-zero emissions in 2050, ahead of the launch of a landmark climate strategy nex

Publication Date: 
21/11/2018
Climate Change News
Tags:
European Union (EU), Climate Change, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Emission Targets
Climate Change

Extinction Rebellion eyes global climate campaign of non-violence

More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat climate change as a crisis.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2018
Climate Change News
Tags:
United Kingdom (UK), Climate Change, United States Of America (US), Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain
Natural Disasters

Heat wave pushes environment up the political agenda in Sweden - poll

This summer's heatwave and wildfires across Sweden have raised the environment to the second most important issue for voters ahead of a general election in September, a poll by Demoskop showed on T

Publication Date: 
10/08/2018
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Heat Waves, Sweden, Europe, Forest Fires
Climate Change

Too hot to handle? Expect more heat waves due to climate change, experts warn

The effects of climate change mean the world can expect higher temperatures and more frequent heat waves, climate experts have warned, with poor communities likely to be worst affected.

Publication Date: 
30/07/2018
Eco Business
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Heat Waves, Global, Greece, Sweden, United Kingdom (UK), Africa, Asia
Forests

Sweden faces 'extreme' fire risk in coming days

Sweden is facing an "extreme" risk of more wildfires in coming days because of hot and dry weather, authorities warned Monday, as dozens of fires raged across the Scandinavian country.

Publication Date: 
24/07/2018
PHYS
Tags:
Forests, Forest Fires, Sweden, Europe
Energy

Burden on hydropower units for short-term balancing of renewable power systems

There is a general need to change hydropower operational regimes to balance the growing contribution of variable renewable energy sources in power systems. Quantifying the burden on generation equipment is increasingly uncertain and difficult. Here, we propose a framework combining technical and economic indicators to analyze primary frequency control (PFC) on a timescale of seconds.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
06/07/2018
Weijia Yang, Per Norrlund, Linn Saarinen & et al
Nature Communications
9
2633
1-12
Tags:
Hydroelectricity, Renewable Energy, Power Transmission, Research, Sweden, United States Of America (US), China
Transport

Determination of real-world emissions from passenger vehicles using remote sensing data

Remote sensing of emissions has a number of important characteristics that make it particularly useful for real-world emissions surveillance.

Publication Date: 
05/06/2018
Yoann Bernard, Uwe Tietge, John German, Rachel Muncrief
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
Tags:
Vehicular Standards, Public Transport, Remote Sensing, France, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland
Health

Revisiting out-of-pocket requirements: trends in spending, financial access barriers, and policy in ten high-income countries

Countries rely on out-of-pocket (OOP) spending to different degrees and employ varying techniques. The article examines trends in OOP spending in ten high-income countries since 2000, and analyzes their relationship to self-assessed barriers to accessing health care services. The countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
18/05/2018
Thomas Rice, Wilm Quentin, Anders Anell & et al
BMC Health Services Research
1-18
Tags:
Health Care, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Health Policy, Subsidies, Health Insurance
Transport

Nordic EV outlook 2018

The Nordic region is at the forefront of the global growth of electric mobility. The Nordic Electric Vehicle Outlook 2018 (NEVO 2018) aims to identify and discuss recent developments of electric mobility in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2018
International Energy Agency
Tags:
Electric Vehicles, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Cars

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