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Big Potential in Bioenergy

The Finnish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sirkka-Liisa Anttila considered the challenges and possibilities of bioenergy in the new decade in Finland as well as in other countries in the Baltic Sea Region. She sees big potential in wood energy and bio gas.
  
The hot topics at the moment are climate change, sustainable climate politics and development, globalization, climate conference and emissions. All these words can be more or less combined with bioenergy. The Minister was requested to share her thoughts on these current topical issues.


Along new decade we need to check the goals for the bioenergy production and use, if we wish to promote bioenergy. “Wood energy offers great possibilities in heat, power and biofuel production”, says Minister Anttila. “In order to increase the current use we have to create good technical and economical conditions, and make sure that working methods are environmentally sound. To achieve the goals, both carrots and sticks are needed, for example, in taxation of coal use.”

Sustainable ways of working are fundamental

The Bioenergy Promotion project emphasises international cooperation especially in the Baltic Sea Region. As general targets, Minister Anttila sees technology cooperation, expertise exchange, education, and common markets. “Great potential lies on agriculture and there is a lot to learn from each other. I believe we will see a wave of big development soon. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to find a joint sustainable way of working.“

One of the goals of the Bioenergy Promotion project is to disseminate the information about local best practices and cases on national and international level. The Minister sees that many important national scale projects are going on currently. “All this needs to be brought on the international level, too, because we could utilise better and faster exchange of know-how from other countries.“

All in all, technology development, cooperation and communication, expertise exchange, for example, are the key factors in the new decade. We have to act together. As for the future, minister Anttila finds peoples choices, development of cooperation, and the use of natural resources in a sustainable way most significant matters.


Elina Ojala, Motiva

2/1/2010



Bioweb/Bioenergy Promotion Newsletter 1/2010, 3.2.2010