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Start date of project: 1 September 2004 Organisation name for this report: e c o n c e p t AG Research, Consulting, Project Management Lavaterstrasse 66, CH-8002 Zrich Tel. + 41 44286 75 75 Fax. +41 44 286 75 76 econcept@econcept.ch www.econcept.ch Walter Ott, Martin Baur, Yvonne Kaufmann
Duration: 48 months ESU-services Kanzleistrasse 4 CH-8610 Uster Tel +41 44 940 61 91 Fax +41 44 940 61 94 frischknecht@esu-services.ch www.esu-services.ch Rolf Frischknecht, Roland Steiner
Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006).x
Dissemination Level PU PP RE CO Public Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)
Additional funding was provided by the Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Roads Authority (FEDRO).
Abstract
This deliverable presents the development of a new methodology for assessing biodiversity losses due to energy production. For resulting land use changes and airborne emissions we build on the work of Eco-indicator (1999) and Koellner (2002) to derive potentially disappeared fractions (PDF) due to certain land use changes as well as depositions of SOx, NOx and NH3. The resulting PDF changes are then valued by using a restoration cost approach. The resulting external costs per unit of PDF change as well as per kg deposition of SOx, NOx and NH3 are presented for 32 different European countries and validated with results from different WTP studies.
Structure
The present document is organized as follows: Chapter 1 presents an introduction into the topic and puts the document and work package into the context of Stream 1b. Chapter 2 deals with the economic valuation of biodiversity losses in general and presents a short overview of different economic valuation instruments. Chapter 3 develops a new methodology for assessing biodiversity losses due to energy-related land use changes and airborne emissions and presents the results for different European countries. These results are discussed and validated by comparing them to other results form a wide range of different studies. Chapter 4 concludes the document with a short summary of the principal results. The Appendix lists the detailed results.