Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies – Policy Brief and Executive summary |
Sep 2008
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The International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) is an independent foundation based in Switzerland whose purpose is to identify and propose recommendations for the governance of emerging global risks.
It appears to IRGC that, in at least some parts of the world, policies are being decided before sound scientific knowledge about the risks has been considered, or even generated. IRGC intends that its risk governance recommendations help decision-makers to develop and implement policies and promote investments that take account of longer-term considerations, and so ensure that the full potential of bioenergy is realised without causing some or all of the associated risks to occur.
From its research and the discussions held at the two workshops IRGC has concluded that risk management strategies should strike a balance between the case specific opportunities offered by bioenergy and the risks it poses. IRGC has identified the following as practical actions and instruments that could help policymakers and industry develop sustainable bioenergy production and policies in the long term.
IRGC hopes that its proposed risk governance guidelines will help in the practical avoidance of major risk governance deficits in bioenergy policies and practices.
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