WBA position paper on global potential of sustainable biomass for energy

Nov 2009

The purpose of the World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is to promote the increasing utilisation of bioenergy globally in an efficient, sustainable, economic and environmentally friendly way. One prominent item in the WBA Action Plan is to “Initiate and promote a study of the potential of biomass for energy built on already presented research. Consequences for food and forest industry must be seriously treated and analysed”.
Hence, the WBA has initiated a project on “Bioenergy, Certification Criteria, Quantifying and Sustainability Criteria & Bioenergy versus Food, Land-use and Water Supply”.
The research partner is Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Swedish Board of Agriculture is providing financing for the research project.
The project will result in three World Bioenergy Association Position Papers:
WBA Position Paper no 1: Global Potential of Sustainable Biomass for Energy (Report 013, ISSN 1654-9406, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
WBA Position Paper no 2: Certification Criteria for Sustainable Biomass for Energy
WBA Position Paper no 3: Biomass for Energy versus Food and Feed, Land Use Analyses and Water Supply
All of them will be released in 2009 and the first position paper is summarized in this document.

By: World Bioenergy Association (WBA)

 
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