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After-treatment of land in Sweden
after finished peat harvest

In Sweden it is compulsory to have a license for commercial peat harvest. Nowadays, the license is granted according to the Environmental Act but earlier there was also a specific Peat Act regulating peat extraction for energy use. For both the licences according to the Environmental Act and for concessions for energy peat, it is a precondition that the land should receive an after-treatment when the peat harvest ends.

A new report shows how large areas the peat extraction companies have post-treated and thereby stopped greenhouse gas emissions. Download the report as a pdf.

European Growers Associations:
Peat is the most important constituent for Growing Media

The horticultural sector has partly changed from field grown crops towards more of protected cultivation. This change underlines the necessity to secure the availability of raw materials for growing media suitable for this type of production. Two major organisations have now agreed on a common way forward with a “Joint Action” plan. Download the full article as a pdf.

Panorama

Sweden’s goal is becoming the world’s first fossil-free welfare state. In order to achieve this goal, a societal transition is required. Here you can get insights on what those transitions are and the current development. By describing what is necessary to achieve the goal as well as policies and measures that accellerate the transition we believe this is a very useful tool in the transition.
We call it Panorama, and it is used by professionals and decision makers who contribute to Sweden’s climate transition as well as the general public aiming to gain a better understanding on Swedish climate policy.

The Swedish Climate Policy Council, Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Agency are the agencies behind the tool.

Information on LULUCF actions by Sweden

Final report

This information on LULUCF actions by Sweden responds the request set out in article 10 of Decision [529/2013/EU] on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry.
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Peat as a co-combustion fuel/fuel additive to biomass for reduced ash related problems in heat and power generation plants – A summary of the state of knowledge

In Sweden and Finland, a relative large number of combined heat and power (CHP) plants are today using or have recently used co-firing of peat- and biomass fuel blends. Operational experience and earlier research has shown that such co-combustion of woody fuels and peat considerably extends the life of super-heaters and minimizes the occurrence of bed agglomeration in fluidized beds. In addition, it has been shown that it also can reduce fine particle emissions in small- and medium scale fixed bed applications.

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If you want the full report, contact info@svensktorv.se .

Climate Smart Peat

New research into peat and peatlands shows that drained peatlands are leaking huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Of no use. The leakage is so large that it exceeds the total carbon dioxide emissions from all domestic traffic in Sweden. It is a problem and we have the solution. By harvesting the renewable resource – peat from drained peatlands – we see to that it can come to good used. Download pdf >>

Greenhous gases from drained peatland

Report no 15

Peat is an organic soil that is accumulated because water saturation and lack of oxygen has substantially reduced the decomposition of plant residues. Sweden has around 10M ha of peat covered land whereof 6M ha is categorized as peat land because the peat layer is thicker than 30cm. About 2.6M ha of the peat land is hydrologically more or less affected by ditching in order to enable forestry or agriculture. This report aims at describing greenhouse-gas balances at this hydrologically affected land in a boreal environment, and is based on a large number of scientific reports.
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Climate project

Emissions of greenhouse gases from peatland managed in forestry and agriculture
Climate project, Mats Olsson 2014-07-07 (Translated from the original Swedish by Jay Hennessy) Download pdf >>