Criteria for sustainable biomass production – Final Report

Jul 2006

The project group “Sustainable Production of Biomass” has been commissioned by the Interdepartmental Programme Management Energy Transition to formulate sustainability criteria for the production and processing of biomass for energy, fuels and chemistry. In this report the project group describes the result of its activities.
The project group has compiled a set of generic sustainability criteria and corresponding sustainability indicators. For this they have followed the triple P approach (people, planet, profit) and aimed at keeping in line, as much as possible, with the already existing conventions and certification systems. In the elaboration no distinction has been made between imported biomass and biomass that is produced in the Netherlands. However, the criteria only holds good for biomass that is applied in the Netherlands, not for possible transit.
This report is composed as follows:
- Chapter 1 describes the project assignment, aim and approach of the project group.
- Chapter 2 examines the vision and starting-points for the elaboration of sustainability criteria and indicators.
- Chapter 3 gives a short explanation and elaboration of each criterion/indicator.
- Chapter 4 elucidates each criterion more extensively.
- Chapter 5 describes the shaping of the thoughts of the project group with respect to certification.
- Chapter 6 describes what follow-up activities the project group foresees for the second half of 2006 and in the longer term.
- Chapter 7 rounds off with conclusions and recommendations.
- Appendices:

1. References to conventions and certification marks
2. Results web survey
3. Report working conference “Sustainable Production of Biomass”, 15 June 2006
4. Stakeholders consulted
5. Calculation greenhouse gas balance

By: Project group Sustainable production of biomass (Dutch Government)

 
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