Carbon budgets and climate footprints: the case of the Swedish forest-based economy
Bogomil Iliev et al.
What the paper says
This study develops a novel, national-accounts-consistent framework that couples monetary and physical supply-use with input–output tables and multiregional input–output analysis to track biogenic carbon and fossil GHGs in Sweden’s forest-based economy. It yields integrated production- and consumption-based balances that reconcile forest carbon stock change with wood-based products stocks and supply-chain fossil GHG emissions. Sweden’s forest-based economy achieved average net emission removal of 92 Mt CO 2 e yr −1 from 2008 to 2021, though with a declining trend. The forest carbon sink weakened by 25 Mt CO 2 e, partly offset by increased storage in wood products, 8 Mt CO 2 e from domestic harvest and 3 Mt CO 2 e from imports, while wood energy use remained stable at 40 Mt CO 2 e yr −1 . On average, 54% of net carbon storage occurred in forests and 46% in downstream economic activities, with a shift toward the latter over time. Augmenting national accounts with physical and international trade flows delivers a transparent, system-wide accounting of biogenic and fossil GHG emissions across complex supply chains that supports policy on bioeconomy performance and climate footprints, transferable to other countries and impact categories.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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