Bioenergy Background

Navigating bioenergy - Contributing to informed decision making on bioenergy issues

Bioenergy has become one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing sectors of the global energy economy. Accelerated growth in the production and use of bioenergy in the past few years is attracting interest from ...

Nov 2009
Oilgae guide to algae-based wastewater treatment – Sample report

Algae are important bioremediation agents, and are already being used by many wastewater facilities. The potential for algae in wastewater remediation is however much wider in scope than its current role.The Oilgae Guide to Algae-based ...

Nov 2009
Towards sustainable production and use of resources: assessing biofuels

Biofuels have received much attention from decision-makers in government and industry, and of the wider public world-wide. As the number of publications devoted to this renewable source of energy is expanding rapidly, it has become ...

Oct 2009
The promise of algae biofuels

To properly assess algae biofuels, there is a need to see the big picture—to develop the full life cycle of algae-to-biofuel production and analyze all potential impacts. This is especially important for a technology that ...

Oct 2009
Background paper: Chinese Renewables Status Report

This report was commissioned by REN21 as a background paper to its policy report on Recommendations for Improving the Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Policies in China.The report includes, among other, an overview of the Chinese ...

Oct 2009
Foreign direct investment in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia

This paper will first give an overview on the development of FDI inflows into Africa in the recent years. The overview will show that FDI inflows have increased differently in the various parts of Africa ...

Oct 2009
Country report Belgium - IEA Bioenergy Task 40 - sustainable international bioenergy trade securing supply and demand

In 2007, the Flemish Region used 29.1 PJ biomass for energy purposes, and the Walloon Region 33.8 PJ. The total green electricity (biomass + other renewables) production in Flanders was 1640 GWh in 2007 (2.7% ...

Sep 2009
Industrial biotechnology - More than green fuel in a dirty economy? - Exploring the transformational potential of industrial biotechnology on the way to a green economy

This report concludes that the full climate change mitigation potential of industrial biotechnology ranges between 1 billion and 2.5 billion tCO2e per year by 2030, compared with a scenario in which no industrial biotechnology applications ...

Sep 2009
Working for the climate - Renewable energy & the green job [R]evolution

Under the Energy [R]evolution scenario, renewable energy gains a much bigger share of the market through dynamic growth. At the same time, nuclear energy is phased out and the number of fossil fuel-fired power plants ...

Sep 2009
Biorefineries: adding value to the sustainable utilisation of biomass

It is recognised by many countries that energy security, environmental concerns and the development of alternative, cleaner sources of chemicals and materials for manufacturing and user industries is becoming a driving imperative.These are just some ...

Sep 2009
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