Looking ahead: GBEP in 2020

 

After the extremely successful Bioenergy Week in the Philippines in June 2019, the Study Tour on Capacity Building will continue its journey around the world, stopping again in Africa in 2020. The African Union (AU)/African Energy Commission (AFREC) have kindly offered to host the event, which will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in April/May 2020 (exact dates to be confirmed). The Bioenergy Week will focus on themes of interest to Africa, and will also involve youth engagement, through the recognition of promising research projects and articles on bioenergy. To highlight the engagement of youth in GBEP activities, a dedicated page has also been created on the GBEP website 

 

There are many GBEP publications set to be finalised in 2020. Under the Task Force on Sustainability, the final draft of the Implementation Guide, along with the accompanying paper on Attribution, will be published on the GBEP website at the beginning of 2020. This will be a live document that can be updated as more experiences arise from the measurement of the GBEP indicators. Along with this, a leaflet will be printed, and an interactive dashboard/video created to provide a succinct, visual summary of the Guide. Under the Working Group on Capacity Building, the Stocktaking Paper on Biogas will be published in early 2020, which includes research in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia. Two further publications, along with accompanying webinars, will be presented in 2020; these are the Collection of examples on the positive relationship between wood energy and forest landscape restoration, and the Collection of good practices and policies on advanced liquid biofuels. 

 

The 2020 GBEP Annual Meetings – including the 23rd meeting of the Steering Committee, the 12th meeting of the Working Group on Capacity Building, and the 18th meeting of the Task Force on Sustainability – will take place 26-30 October 2020 in FAO HQ, Rome. These meetings provide an opportunity to review the 2020 work and plan for the new year ahead.  

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