The Activity Group 6 “Bioenergy and Water”

The Activity Group 6 “Bioenergy and Water”, led by IEA, was established in November 2014. The goal of this Activity Group is to identify and disseminate ways of integrating bioenergy systems into agriculture and forestry landscapes to improve sustainable management of water resources. This includes sharing knowledge and experiences on best management practices as well as on policies and instruments supporting bioenergy implementation that contributes positively to the state of water. The Activity Group will also serve as a vehicle for awareness raising on the GBEP sustainability indicators on water and spreading the use of them to other countries and regions.

 

  • Scope and programme of work
  • Call for Evidence of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships
    Water quantity and quality have been identified as emerging issues of concern in the bioenergy field, yet there is evidence that bioenergy systems can be designed and managed in such a way as to improve adaptation to water constraints and optimise overall resource management. The GBEP Activity Group 6 launched the Call for Evidence to show that there are many encouraging examples of how good management of resources - benefiting from complementarity of different systems - can provide food, bioenergy and biomaterials while improving the state of water. The submissions received in response were reviewed by the Activity Group and the most relevant among them were selected to be presented at a workshop organized in Stockholm, Sweden. All of these examples, plus an additional eight more, were compiled to produce the report on “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships”, published in February 2016.
  • Report "Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships"

 

EVENTS

GBEP event “Bioenergy, water and SDG implementation: experiences and linkages”  - World Water Week, Stockholm (Sweden), 31 August 2017

Building on an integrative understanding of bioenergy and water, the event aimed to contribute to SDG implementation. Selected positive examples were presented together with learning from activities addressing linkages between SDGs and the GBEP Sustainability Indicators, which are intended to guide analysis undertaken of bioenergy at the domestic level with a view to informing decision making and facilitating the sustainable development of bioenergy in a manner consistent with multilateral trade.

Working documents and outcomes

Activity Group 6 - Workshop on “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships”  - Rome (Italy), 30 November 2016

Following-up on the previous work of AG6, this Workshop represented an opportunity to discuss the interest of GBEP in further work on bioenergy and water.

Working documents and outcomes


Activity Group 6 - Webinar “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships in the Americas” - 25 May 2016


In continuation of the recent publication “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships”, and of the webinar of 6 April 2016, the GBEP Secretariat and IEA Bioenergy hosted a webinar in which positive examples from the Americas were showcased.

Working documents and outcomes



Activity Group 6 - Webinar “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Europe” - 6 April 2016

In continuation of the recent publication “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships”, the GBEP Secretariat and IEA Bioenergy hosted a webinar in which positive examples from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe were showcased. There were presentations and discussions on producing electricity from invasive alien plants in South Africa; integrated tree crop systems in south-western Western Australia; and livestock waste to biogas using the BiogasDoneRight© model in Italy.

Working documents and outcomes

 

Activity Group 6 - Workshop on “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships”  - Stockholm (Sweden), 25-26 August 2015

This workshop took place on 25 and 26 August, 2015 and was organized by GBEP and IEA Bioenergy, in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) and Chalmers Energy Area of Advance, in Stockholm (Sweden). It aimed to show how bioenergy systems (in both the feedstock production and conversion phases) can produce positive impacts on the status of water as well as inspire other bioenergy producers to build on the knowledge gained through these experiences.

 

Working documents and outcomes

 

 

 

 

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