GBEP Events 2021

Working Group on Capacity Building meetings and activities 2021

13th Meeting of the GBEP Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy

Online event, 15 November 2021

GBEP Activity Group 8 – Advanced Liquid Biofuels

Webinar – “Advanced liquid biofuels for net zero transport – from experiences to action”

2 November 2021

GBEP Activity Group 7 – Biogas

2021 Webinar series on promoting sustainable biogas

  • Learning from successful case studies on biogas in Asia – 9 September 2021
  • Learning from successful case studies on biogas in Africa – 3 June 2021
  • Analysing opportunities and challenges for Biogas at regional and national levels – 27 May 2021 

Information and Recordings


GBEP Activity Group 2 – Raising awareness, and sharing of data and experience on the implementation of the GBEP indicators

LEDSLAC and GBEP workshop – “The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for bioenergy in Paraguay. Methodology, results and policy recommendations”

Tuesday 22 June 2021

GBEP Activity Group 4 – Towards sustainable modern wood energy development

GBEP Side Event at EUBCE 2021 – “Biomass for landscape restoration: how can the bioeconomy contribute to the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration?”

Online, Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:15-18:15 CEST

GBEP Activity Group 3 – Study Tour for Capacity Building and training 

8th GBEP Bioenergy Week 2021

Online event, 16-18 March 2021 

The 8th Bioenergy Week was held in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), African Energy Commission (AFREC) and African Union Commission (AUC).

The conference offered a platform to draw positive experiences on sustainable production and use of bioenergy integrated within food production value chains, to support the design and implementation of bioenergy policies in Africa. It also shared practical insights and recommendations for mainstreaming and integrating bioenergy development in countries’ policy agendas.

Steering Commitee meetings 2021

24th Meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee

Online event, 16 November 2021

Task Force on Sustainability meetings 2021

19th Task Force on Sustainability

Online event, 16 November 2021

  • Agenda
  • Participant list
  • Presentations
    • Presentation of TFS main results and accomplishments, Constance Miller (GBEP Secretariat)
    • FAO Report on the Rapid Implementation Framework, Federica Matteoli (CSA team, FAO) and Andrea Rossi and Constance Miller, (FAO/GBEP Secretariat)
    • Progress of GBEP work on bioeconomy, Uwe Fritsche (Germany)
    • Cooperation with Biofuture Platform on Biomass quantification and Sustainability Governance, Paolo Frankl (IEA)
  • Co-chair Conclusions