| BioGrace Project working to harmonise GHG emission saving calculations in Europe A key element in this process will be the calculation and reporting by operators of the GHG impact of their biofuels. In order to aid these calculations, the EU directives gave default values for GHG emission savings of 22 biofuel production pathways. But they did not specify the "standard conversion values" or the "input numbers" that were used to obtain the default values. Since economic operators can freely choose the most favourable conversion values, differences will arise in the savings calculated, even for the same shipment of biofuel. As a consequence, figures could vary by 10 percent, 20 percent or even more. The BioGrace project is aiming to avoid these differences in GHG emission savings data by retracing and publishing how the default values were calculated and elaborate a uniform and transparent list of standard conversion values for GHG calculations. The EU-funded project is doing this by publishing on its website: In order to help disseminate its work, BioGrace is organising seven GHG calculation workshops for government representatives, economic operators, auditors and advisors through August 2011. Workshops were due to be held in Stockholm and Athens last month as part of this process. Another big issue on the agenda was how to integrate new biofuel production pathways into the harmonisation process. Sign up online here for updates from the BioGrace project.
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