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Supplying Sustainable Bioenergy: The Biomass Futures Sustainability Indicators

Uwe R. Fritsche
Oeko-Institut, Energy & Climate Division
from April onwards:

IINAS - International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy

presented at the Biomass Futures Lunch Workshop Designing Policy to meet Europes Future Bioenergy Needs How can the Biomass Futures project inform future European bioenergy policy? 20 March 2012 at the European Parliament, Brussels

Considerall BiomassFlows

Whats outthere (global)?


ISO:ProjectCommittee created,butwilltake at least until 2013 GBEP:nationalindicators from SustainabilityTask ForceNov.2011;now piloting &capacitybuilding GEF:study onbiofuelscompleted,to be published ISCC,RSB:extension to allbioenergyplanned feedstockspecific:BSI,FSC,PEFC,RSPO,RTRS

Wheres the EU?

Conclusion: voluntary implementation by MS, but using RED methodology Report from COM still pending, but much discussion

KeyChallenges
Criticalenvironmentalissues
indirectLUCimpactsonGHGbalance,and biodiversity,evennonfoodcropsonarable land

resourceuseefficiency(land,residues) Agro andforestbiodiversity:canbepositive or negative(dependsonlocation,practice,scale...)

Longerterm:transgenicplants(GMO)? Foodsecurity(global)

Whatwepropose
Sustainabilitycriteriaandindicators:
resourceuseefficiencyrequirementsforbioenergycrops (land)andresidues/wastes(conversion) GHGemissionsfromdirect+indirectlandusechange(LUC) biodiversecultivationsystems,extractionratesforofresidues airpollutants(reductionlevels),soil(trafficlightmaps),water (bufferzones) social:globalfood security(newFAOapproach)

Coherentsetforallbioenergy,i.e.electricity,heat, transport andperspectiveforbiomaterials

Keycriteria&indicators
efficiency:land(>100GJ/ha), residue(>60%) GHG (>60%reduction),including iLUC biodiversity:beyondnogoareas require agrobiodiversecultivation,restrictforest biomassextraction,noGMO soil: mapsofnutrientdepletionrisk(go) water: bufferzones,restrictagrochemicals social:globalfood securityiskey(FAO!)

Biomass:Cascading!
Biomasscrops 1stpriority:materialuse

Residues/wastes

Endofcascade:energy use

Moreinformation
Criteria and Indicators for SustainableSolidBioenergy:
WorkshopSeriesand InputPaper Ajoint initiativewith

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Your inputs welcome: uf@iinas.org


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