Working Group on Capacity Building meetings and activities 2018
GBEP Activity Group 4 - GBEP Side Event at the Global Landscape Forum on "Contribution of a sustainable wood energy production approach to Forest Landscape Restoration in Sub-Saharan Africa" - Bonn, 1-2 December 2018
The event aimed to discuss the relevance and opportunity of sustainable wood energy production and use as a contribution to forest landscape restoration (FLR) with stakeholders across sectors and especially between FLR and bioenergy stakeholders. The focus of the event was Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as both challenges and opportunities for sustainable woody bioenergy to contribute to FLR - and vice versa - are concentrated in countries in this region. Currently, there is a lack of collaboration between those requiring wood energy and those concerned with enhancing FLR. This event sought to bring stakeholders from both groups together into dialogue to explore the views of different stakeholders, and to develop a joint agenda for action around sustainable wood energy and FLR.
- Agenda
- Speaker biographies and photos
- Presentations:
- Tiziana Pirelli, FAO and GBEP
- Bah Saho, ECREEE/ECOWAS
- Mamadou Diakite, AFR100 Secretariat
- Christophe Bring, AFR100 Focal Point, Cameroon
- Luis da Silva, WWF International
- Barron Joseph Orr, UNCCD Secretariat
10th Working Group on Capacity Building, 27 - 28 November 2018
- Agenda
- Information note
- List of participants
- Presentations:
- Brief overview on the implementation of GBEP indicators worldwide - Horst Fehrenbach (Germany)
- Implementation in Paraguay - Guillermo Parra (Paraguay)
- Implementation in Viet Nam - Andrea Rossi (FAO)
- Implementation in Ethiopia - Berhane Kidane (Ethiopia)
- Implementation in Kenya - Rocio Diaz-Chavez (UN Environment)
- Biogas sector in the Three Desert Governorates - Ahmed Abdelati (Egypt)
- Capacity development in Ghana and Togo - Tiziana Pirelli (FAO)
- The experience in Germany, Italy and Ukraine (FORBIO Project) - Marco Colangeli (FAO) and Rainer Janssen (WIP)
- Second Implementation in Germany - Horst Fehrenbach (Germany)
- Key messages from the 2018 Bioenergy Week in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Rodrigo Estrela (Brazil)
- Progress Report on Activity Group 4 - Olivier Dubois (FAO)
- Agroforestry with short-rotation wood crops as an example of practice that should score highly on GBEP sustainability indicators - Jeffrey Skeer (IRENA)
- An overview of RED II - Malcolm McDowell (DG Energy, EC)
- Update on the development of the stocktaking report on biogas - Constance Miller (GBEP Secretariat)
- Conclusions
WGCB Workshop - The contribution of GBEP's work on sustainability to the project "Fostoring Sustainable Feedstock Production for Advanced Biofuels on underutilised land in Europe - FORBIO", 27 November 2018
- Agenda
- Presentations:
- FORBIO Project Presentation - Cosette Khawaja and Rainer Janssen (WIP)
- The Italian Case Study, Agronomic and techno-economic feasibility - Guido Bonati (CREA)
- The Italian Case Study, Sustainability Assessment - Marco Colangeli (FAO)
- The German Case Study, Agronomic and techno-economic feasibility - Dirk Knoche (FIB)
- The German Case Study, Sustainability Assessment - Marco Colangeli (FAO)
- The Ukrainian Case Study, Agronomic and techno-economic feasibility - Oleksandra Tryboi (SECBio)
- The Ukrainian Case Study, Sustainability Assessment - Marco Colangeli (FAO)
- The EC Programme and R&I Policies - Maria Georgiadou (EC, DG Research)
- The implementation of the GBEP Sustainability Indicators and way forward to foster sustainable bioenergy - Maria Michela Morese (FAO)
GBEP Activity Group 3 - 6th GBEP Bioenergy Week, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 16-18 October 2018