Task 45: Climate and Sustainability Effects of Bioenergy within the Circular Bioeconomy
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Call for contributions: Bioenergy towards net-zero/net-negative futures
Oct 2025IEA Bioenergy and collaborating organizations are launching a call for contributions to engage experts in assessing biomass production and use for energy in pathways toward net-zero/net-negative futures. The goal is to identify, synthesise, and share information on critical issues that determine the role of bioenergy in transitions toward net-zero/net-negative futures. In addition to learning from […]
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IEA Bioenergy T45 WS on temporary carbon storage Nov 30 & Dec 7 2023
Dec 2023Task 45 organized an online workshop on temporary carbon storage. The purpose of the workshop was to share knowledge and discuss issues related to the temporary storage of carbon, such as in long-lived wood products, through bioenergy systems with carbon capture and utilization, and through reforestation, where the carbon is vulnerable to future reversal. The […]
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Online T45, WP3, workshop on the sustainability certification of woody biomass
Jun 2022June 15 2022 In order to analyse and better understand the evident methodological differences between existing approaches to demonstrate sustainability compliance, and to discuss opportunities and limitations associated with instruments and mechanisms of certification in policymaking, the IEA Task 45 project on “approaches to sustainability compliance and verification (C&V) for forest biomass” has looked in […]
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ETIP Bioenergy – IEA Bioenergy – SEA – f3 Webinar: Biomass for energy purposes – True and false about climate impact
Dec 202110 December 2021 Currently, use of biomass for energy purposes, such as fuel production, is widely and intensively debated in the European Union by forestry and agriculture representatives, researchers, decision-makers, NGOs and many others. Many claims are asserted with determination, but what is true and what is false? Certain questions keep recurring: Is extraction of […]
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IEA Bioenergy Triannual Online Conference
Nov 202129 November – 9 december 2021 The conference consisted of 10 technical sessions and 4 panel session, spread between 29 November and 9 December 2021, with one or two 2-hour sessions per day. Each day was dedicated to a central topic. All information of the sessions (presentations, recording, highlights, poll results) are available on the Session […]
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Workshop – How can biomass supply for bioenergy deliver multiple benefits and contribute to sustainable development goals (Virtual)
Jun 202115-16 June 2021 (virtual). The workshop examined how biomass supply for bioenergy can contribute to SDGs beyond renewable energy supply and provide multiple co-benefits. The workshop focused on the relationships between the SDGs and different biomass supply chains and regions, sharing best practice case studies from around the world. Based on these case studies participants […]
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Conference sessions at BBEST-BIOFUTURE Conference (Virtual)
May 2021May 24-26, 2021 Governing a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Assessment and Monitoring (Experience and Perspective) Innovative Landscape Approaches for Sustainable Bioenergy Recorded presentations available here
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Woody Biomass – Climate Workshop (Online)
Apr 2021April 15, 2021 A workshop in collaboration with The Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy and the European Forest Institute (EFI). The workshop included presentations by Sarah Mubareka, Jacopo Giuntoli and Giacomo Grassi on the JRC report on forest bioenergy; Robert Matthews on Bioenergy and the EU LULUCF regulation; Gert-Jan Nabuurs on Climate smart forestry and ways to avoid the “lose-lose […]
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The 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions
Jan 2021A new date for the conference has been set: June 14-17, 2022! The objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit warming to well below 2ºC, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5ºC. The carbon budget is the amount of carbon dioxide that we can emit while still limiting global temperature rise to […]
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