Task 43

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  Attractive Systems for Bioenergy Feedstock Production in Sustainably Managed Landscapes

  Jul 2019

  Contributions to the Call Task 43 launched an initiative to identify attractive examples of landscape management and design for bioenergy and the bioeconomy. The aim of this initiative to catalogue and highlight world-wide examples of biomass production systems, throughout all stages of production, that can contribute positively to biodiversity and the generation of other ecosystem […]

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  Sustainable Landscape Management for Bioenergy and the Bioeconomy

  Mar 2019

  Report from Joint IEA Bioenergy Task 43 & FAO Workshop 11-12th October 2018, Rome, Italy In October 2018, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 “Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets” and FAO organized a joint workshop “Sustainable Landscape Management for Bioenergy and the Bioeconomy”. The workshop’s leitmotiv was how to communicate bioenergy beyond the typical bioenergy stakeholders. Despite […]

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  Feasibility of verifying sustainable forest management principles for secondary feedstock to produce wood pellets for co-generation of electricity in the Netherlands

  Sep 2018

  The background for this research report is a current dispute in the Netherlands in connection with the implementation of the Dutch Agreement on Energy for Sustainable Growth and a ‘Covenant’ that has been agreed between the Dutch energy industry and NGOs. This dispute makes it relevant to assess the feasibility of verifying compliance with sustainable […]

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  Stump Harvesting – Impact on Climate and Environment

  Sep 2017

  In 2007, the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (NL) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) initiated the thematic programme “Theme stump harvesting”. The programme was jointly financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, the NL faculty, and FSC-certified forest companies and was run for eight years, 2008 – 2015, with a total […]

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