The Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on sustainability indicators for bioenergy

16 Jan 12

Rome, 16 January 2012 - The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) announces today it has published its report on sustainability indicators for bioenergy, providing an invaluable resource in helping countries assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy. The report represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy and is the concrete evidence of how GBEP Partners and Observers have successfully responded to the mandates received from successive Group of Eight Summits in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Publication of “The Global Bioenergy Partnership Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy” is announced in occasion of the opening of the World Future Energy Summit and the launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, today in Abu Dhabi. The report – featuring 24 sustainability indicators and their respective methodology sheets – is intended to provide policymakers and other stakeholders with a tool that can support the development of national bioenergy policies and programmes as well as help interpret and respond to the environmental, social and economic impacts of bioenergy production and use. The indicators take a holistic approach to assessing many important aspects of the intersection of bioenergy and sustainability, including greenhouse gas emissions, biological diversity, the price and supply of a national food basket, access to energy, economic development and energy security.

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