GBEP Events 2020

Steering Commitee meetings 2020

23rd Steering Committee 2020

Online event, 28 October 2020

  • Agenda
  • List of participants
  • Summary

Working Group on Capacity Building meetings and activities 2020

12th Meeting of the GBEP Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy

Online event, 27 October 2020

  • Agenda
  • List of participants
  • Presentation
    • Sustainable wood energy as a contribution to forest landscape restoration, Tiziana Pirelli (GBEP Secretariat)
  • Mini webinar on Activity Group 8: Impact of COVID-19 on advanced liquid biofuels sector
    • Long term goals of decarbonisation, Toshimasa Masuyama (IRENA)
    • Overview of advanced biofuels and potential cost reductions, Adam Brown (IEA Bioenergy)
    • Private sector perspective, Marko Janhunen (UPM Biofuels)
    • Private sector perspective, Dario Giordano (Versalis)
    • Public sector perspective, Emily Marthaler (USA)
    • Five principles for post-Covid bioeconomy recovery and acceleration, Andrea Rossi (IEA, Facilitation team of the Biofuture Platform)
  • Conclusions

GBEP Activity Group 4 – Towards sustainable modern wood energy development

National dialogue on Wood Energy and Forest Landscape Restoration in Ghana – Accra, 27-28 January 2020

  • Agenda
  • Summary Report
  • Presentations
    • Synergies between Sustainable Wood Energy and FLR, Tiziana Pirelli (GBEP)
    • Swot Analysis of the Ghanaian Wood Energy Value Chain, Beatrice Darko Obiri (CSIR – FORIG)
    • FLR Work for the People and by the People, Daryl Bosu (A Rocha) 
    • Community-based Governance Arrangements for Charcoal Production in Ghana, Joseph Asante (Tropenbos)
    • Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology, Saadia B. Owusu-Amofah (IUCN)
    • Improved Technologies for Wood Energy Production: Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis, Owusu Ansah (Tropenbos) 
    • Use of Bamboo for Energy Production, Michael Kwaku (INBAR)
    • Use of Solid Agro Residue as Fuel, James K. Korang (CSIR)
    • Making Earth Good Again, Improved Feedstock, Pragnes Mishra (Abellon CleanEnergy)
    • Alternative Bioenergy Technology, Enoch Kofi Boadu (BAG)
    • Biochar to restore Cocoa forest in Ghana, Ellen R. Graber (The Volcani Center)
    • Digestate as soilless substrate for forest seedlings, Gideon O. Annor-Gyami (Safisana)
    • FFF activities in Ghana_Charcoal Producers, Sophie Grouwels (FFF/FAO)
    • FLR activities in Ghana, FORM International
    • FLR and sustainable wood energy, GIZ Ghana
    • Bioenergy Policy Framework, Julius Nkansah-Nyarko (Energy Commission)
    • Forestry Planning, Kwakye Amyaw (Forestry Commission)
  • Photos
  • Media coverage (Ghana Web)
  • Media coverage (Ghana News Agency)
  • Media coverage (Wisdom Togobo, Director of Renewable and Alternative Energies, Ghana)
  • Media coverage

GBEP Activity Group 4

Dialogue national sur le bois-énergie et la restauration des paysages forestiers au Togo (National dialogue on Wood Energy and Forest Landscape Restoration) in Togo – Lomé, 22-23 January 2020

  • Agenda
  • Rapport Final
  • Discour du Ministre de MEDDPN
  • Presentations
    • Les Initiatives RPF et AFR100: La contribution du Togo, Amah Atutonu (AFR100)
    • FFOM du Bois-énergie au Togo, Awesso Balakyem (DRF)
    • La Contribution de la Bioénergie Moderne au FLR, Tiziana Pirelli (GBEP)
    • FFF au Togo, Sophie Grouwels (FAO)
    • GIZ Pro Energie, Komlan Akpoto & Lidaou Pignozi (GIZ)
    • Foyers Ameliorés, Yendoubé Lare (Université de Lomé)
    • La Meule Casamançaise, Jérémie Kokou Fontodji (Université de Lomé)
    • Mode de Tirage de la Meule Casamançaise, Jérémie Kokou Fontodji (Université de Lomé)
    • Les Biomasse Ameliorée au Togo, Dzotsi Koffi Elom Towodjo (Mouvement Togalais pour la Salut des Peuples)
    • Photos pendant le projet pilote, Dzotsi Koffi Elom Towodjo (Mouvement Togalais pour la Salut des Peuples)
    • Biogaz au Togo, Maglwa Tcha-Thom (iAP & CPD)
    • Digestat Comme Engrais du Sol et Substrats Sales pour les Semis de Plantes Forestières, Kolani N’Djoibini Tchanaté (Université de Lomé)
    • L’approche FAO sur FLR, Christophe Besacier (FAO)
    • Pratiques d’Amanagement Forestier Durable, Segla Novinyo Kossi (Université de Lomé)
    • Cadre juridique de la BE au Togo, Prosper Kokoto (INENSUS)
    • Planification forestiere et incitations, Jean-Marc Gnama (DRF/MEDDPN)
  • Media coverage (Agence de Presse Togolaise)
  • Media coverage (Togo First)
  • Media coverage (Ministère de l’Environnement, du Développement et de la Protection de Nature)
  • Photos

IRENA Innovation Week 2020

Session 4: Growing the bio-ecocomy: solutions for the sustainable supply for biomass and biofuels

Together with the Global Bioenergy Partnership, IRENA in a session at #IVIW2020 will showcase best practices and innovative approaches to secure sustainable biomass and to turn it into valuable feedstocks for energy, and will explore how these experiences can be replicated and further scaled-up.

  • Learn more and register here
  • Social media card
  • LinkedIn here
  • Agenda

GBEP Side event, 28th e-EUBCE, 9 July 2020 (event by remote)

This side event is aimed to give the opportunity to shed light on the role of bioenergy in the climate goals (including considering the recent IPCC report on Climate Change and Land) and share the experience of GBEP and other relevant international institutions regarding the joint effort towards sustainable development of bioenergy.

  • Agenda
  • Presentations
    • Uwe Fritsche, IEA Bioenergy
    • Maria Michela Morese, GBEP
    • Horst Fehrenbach, IFEU
    • Guido Bezzi, CIB
    • Suani Coelho, USP
    • Vincent Ziba, FAO
    • Tiziana Pirelli, GBEP/FAO & Cisco Aust, GIZ
    • David Chiaramonti, Polytechnic of Turin
  • Summary of the GBEP side event