Working Group on Capacity Building meetings and activities 2015
7th Working Group on Capacity Building – Rome (Italy), 9-13 November 2015
1st meeting of Activity Group 6 – “Bioenergy and Water” – Stockholm (Sweden), 26 August 2015
Activity Group 6 – Workshop on “Examples of Positive Bioenergy and Water Relationships” – Stockholm (Sweden), 25-26 August 2015
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25 August 2015- Introduction – Andrea Rossi (GBEP Secretariat)Bioremediation of industrial drainage water with Sesbania aegyptiaca – Ahmed Abdelati (Desert Research Center, Egypt)Bioenergy crop buffer zone in Central Illinois – Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)Livestock waste to biogas: the Italian BiogasDoneRight® model – Guido Bezzi (Consorzio Italiano Biogas e Gassificazione, Italy)Biogas from livestock waste to reduce pollution in Lake Tai, China – Takashi Hayashi (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan)Waste-to-bioenergy in Argentina – María Rosa Murmis (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Argentina)Transforming the sugarcane ethanol industry to address water challenges in Brazil – Andre Elia (UNICA, Brazil)Impacts of switchgrass intercropping in traditional pine forests on hydrology and water quality – Devendra Amatya (Center for Forested Wetlands Research, USA)Integrated woody biomass cropping for salinity control in dryland agriculture in Australia – John Mc Grath (Department of Parks and Wildlife, Western Australia)Perennial biomass crops on environmentally sensitive land in the US – Kenneth Moore (CenUSA Bioenergy, Iowa State University, USA)
26 August 2015
- Producing electricity from biomass from terrestrial invasive alien plant – Helen Watson (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
- AquaMak: Improving water quality by harvesting water plants for biomass utilization – Vasco Brummer (Institute for International Research on Sustainable Management and Renewable Energy, Germany)
- Lessons learnt and recommendations for dissemination, scaling-up and capacity building – Uwe Fritsche (IEA Bioenergy)
- Conclusions – Göran Berndes (IEA Bioenergy)
- List of participants
Activity Group 4 – Webinar : “Towards sustainable modern wood energy development” – 24 June 2015
Activity Group 3 – Third Bioenergy Week – Medan, Indonesia, 25-29 May 2015
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Steering Committee meetings 2015
18th Steering Committee – Rome (Italy), 9-13 November 2015