IIASA's Sustainable Forest Resources (FOR) Project, together with the Energy Compatible Energy Systems (ECS) Project, is carrying out a full carbon account (FCA) for Russia. This report discusses the application of FCA in addressing some major scientific issues and challenges underlying the...

A model was built for estimating the carbon stocks and fluxes generated by the production and consumption of forest products on the territory of the Russian Federation. The paper starts with the validation of a fiber flow scheme for 1990 using various Russian statistics. Forecasts a re made for...

It is expected that the paper and office products supply chain will move online in the very near future. The hubris of new eBusiness models has ended in a fragmented picture of a multitude of personal views relating to future developments on the eEconomy, eIndustry and eEnterprise levels. This...

Improvements in economic efficiency and productivity are the most important sources for economic growth and will play a major role in the process of industrial restructuring in the Russian Federation which has yet to occur. The Soviet Union left an institutional vacuum and large economic...

IIASA's Sustainable Boreal Forest Resources (FOR) Project is in the process of deriving full carbon accounts for a number of countries (Russia, Austria, Ukraine, etc.). These carbon accounts permit the Project to make generalized findings and to identify knowledge gaps relevant to the...

The Forestry Project (FOR) at IIASA has produced a full carbon account (FCA) for Russia for 1990, together with scenarios for 2010. Currently, there are rather big question marks regarding the existing carbon accounts for Russia, and Russia is critical to the global carbon balance due to its...

In its current form the Kyoto Protocol does not consider the issue of uncertainty in the process of mutual recognition of emission reductions between Parties. We argue that lack of appropriate institutions that police emission reporting will lead to a disintegration of the carbon market due to...

The integration of ethanol production with combined heat and power plants is considered in this paper. An energy balance process model has been used to generate data for the production of ethanol, electricity, heat and biogas. The geographical position of such plants becomes of importance when...

The Congo Basin encompasses the second largest rainforest area after the Amazon but the Congo Basin rainforest has been more preserved during the last decades with a much lower deforestation rate. At the same time, the region remains one of the least developed in the world. We use the partial...