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A further increase in biomass energy supply is a crucial future option
for reducing the Austrian contribution to climate change. Analysis of
it has so far focused mainly on supply potentials and costs of produc
tion. Increased biomass energy supply, however, is also connected to e
conomy-wide effects and to feedback effects on its own demand. This pa
per quantifies such effects in a general equilibrium framework of the
Austrian economy for different supply scenarios. Increases in biomass
energy are shown, for example, to cause substantial changes in the nec
essary CO2 tax rare to reach a given emission objective level. (C) 199
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