Priority areas

The Partnership focuses its activities in three strategic areas:
Sustainable Development - Climate Change - Food and Energy Security.

In line with GBEP’s Terms of Reference and the state of the international debate on bioenergy, GBEP Partners selected the following priority areas for the immediate programme of work:

  • Facilitate the sustainable development of bioenergy
    The GBEP Task Force on Sustainability, established in 2008 under the leadership of the United Kingdom, is working to develop a set of relevant, practical, science-based, voluntary criteria and indicators as well as examples of best practice regarding the sustainability of bioenergy. A further aim of this activity is to identify synergies between the various current initiatives and encourage closer joint working and integration where possible to promote greater consistency and reduce unnecessary duplication.

  • Formulate a common methodological framework on GHG emission reduction measurement from the use of bioenergy
    The GBEP Task Force on GHG Methodologies, established in 2007 under the joint leadership of the United States and the UN Foundation, has completed the first stage of its work and has released a report containing a common methodological framework for the use of policy makers and stakeholders when assessing GHG impacts by which the results of GHG lifecycle assessments could be compared on an equivalent and consistent basis. The Task Force is implementing the framework which may become a useful tool for domestic measurement, reporting and verification set out in the Copenhagen Accord, for bioenergy projects.

  • New focus area on capacity building and technology cooperation for sustainable bioenergy
    GBEP is currently defining its future work in promoting capacity-building and technology cooperation for sustainable bioenergy.

  • Raise awareness and facilitate information exchange on bioenergy
    GBEP’s awareness-raising and information management activities seek to increase the understanding of issues related to bioenergy development.


GBEP and the G8

GBEP reports yearly to the G8 on its activities and programme of work in response to the mandates received from the G8 Leaders since 2005:
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