C02 emissions in Stockholm may well be 25 per cent reduced
A recent report from the City of Stockholm Environment & Health Administration indicates that the city could well reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide by some 25 percent – or 500 kilotons of CO2 equivalents – from 2005 to 2015. Facts supporting this have just been produced by the KTH Div. of Industrial Ecology.
The study from KTH is a so-called “business as usual scenario”, describing the emissions of greenhouse gases emanating from inside the municipal borders of Stockholm until year 2015. The calculations were made from prognoses on the future use of energy in Stockholm, which will still increase, as between today and 2015 an estimated population increase of 60,000 persons will come about.
Above all, the reduction in emissions will mainly be an effect of better heating, despite the demand for building heat actually increasing! This is thanks to the fact that less and less emissions will come from sources that are heavy polluters today, such as small oil furnaces and direct electric heating (depending on the mode of production of electric current for heating purposes). Instead the share of efficient district heating from new power plants using biofuels will increase greatly; new plants of this type will be erected at Värtan and Brista.
Håkan Soold