Rome, 28-29 October 2004

Organized by:
Task 40 “Sustainable Bio-energy Trade; securing Supply and Demand” under the Bio-energy Agreement of the International Energy Agency
and
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Location: FAO headquarters, Rome Italy

Forum conclusions: forumconclusions.pdf [1,121 KB]

Various tasks active within the IEA already raised the issue of international biomass trade and related subjects before. It proves to be an essential area for bio energy as a whole. Within several international organizations (FAO, World Bank, UNECE, UNDP, UNFCCC, WTO, SGS, NGO’s (Greenpeace, WWF) the interest for the concept of international bio energy trade is growing. Also industrial parties (Shell, Cargill, Nedalco, Vattenfall, Essent) are currently strongly involved or interested in biomass trade.
By means of the international platform of IEA combined with industrial parties, governmental bodies and NGO’s, this task aims to contribute to the development of sustainable biomass markets on short and on long term and on different scale levels (from regional to global). In its intended activities, the task programme will take the several stages of development of biomass markets, in different regions of the world into account. Furthermore, the ambition is that this platform can set the agenda and initiate a host of new activities relevant for developing biomass potentials worldwide. The future vision on global bio energy trade is that it develops over time into a real “commodity market” which will secure supply and demand in a sustainable way; sustainability being a key factor for long-term security.
Task 40 investigates what is needed to create a “commodity market” for biomass. By means of this platform in which industrial parties, governmental bodies and NGO’s participate, this task will contribute to the development of sustainable bio-energy markets on short and on long term and on different scale levels (from regional to global).
Task 40 started off in January 2004, establishing it’s priorities and first set of actions.

Organisation:
This is the first ‘’public’’ activity of IEA Task 40. It is organized in close collaboration with FAO and is as a joint activity realized in the context of the memorandum of understanding between FAO and the IEA Bio-energy Agreement.
Responsible organizations from IEA Task 40 are the Copernicus Institute of the Utrecht University (Netherlands) and Essent Energy (Netherlands).

Objectives of the meeting:
A key objective of the task is to obtain an overview of current trading experiences and markets as well as potential future markets. This includes monitoring the development of biomass markets and trade over time, making inventories of barriers for developing working biomass markets and (international) trade and strategies to cope with those

Programme:
DAY 1:
Part 1: Bio-energy markets and trading experiences
Part 2: International setting
DAY 2:
Part 3: Trading experiences in other sectors
Part 4: Task 40 and participating countries (national developments; country reports)

The report from this meeting can be donwloaded from here. {verslag toeveogen!)

Day 1 (Thursday, 28 October 2004): (9:30 – 17:30)

Welcome from FAO; setting and collaboration with IEA Bioenergy (Gustavo Best a.o.)

General introduction background and scope of the meeting: (Rob Remmers/Andre Faaij)

Part 1: Bioenergy markets and trading experiences:

Sweden (Seved Lycksell, Head of fuel dept. Skellefteå Kraft AB)
Experience of sourcing biofuels from Sweden and abroad

Austria (Michael Wild, EBES)
Experience of ABEX and EBES in building bioenergy trading schemes in Austria/Europe
ebesbfromem.wild.pdf [1,336 KB]

COFFEE BREAK: 11:00 – 11:20

Canada (Douglas Bradley, Climate Change Solutions )
Experiences in Canada [578 KB]


UK (Dr. Jeremy Woods, Imperial College / Peter Billings, British BIOGEN)
Environmental Biofuel Accreditation: markets, incentives, tax and trade - a UK perspective
ukbfromejwoods.pdf [311 KB]

UNECE (Hans Jansen)
Wood fuel export from Russian Forests
unecebfromehansjansen.pdf [1,757 KB]

LUNCH: 12:30 – 14:00

Part 2: International setting / International Constitutions

FAO (Gustavo Best)
Sustainable development, bioenergy and global dimensions: FAO Strategic Action Plan
faobfromegustavobest.pdf [538 KB]

FAO/World Food Programme (Jennifer Nyberg)
Bioenergy, Sugar and Technical Assistance
faobfromej.nyberg.pdf [127 KB]

World Bank (Boris Utria)
Bioenergy for sustainable development
worldbankbfromeb.utria.pdf [2,362 KB]

COFFEE BREAK: 15:30 – 16:00

Austria (Bernhard Schlamadinger, Joanneum Institute)
Trading biomass, bioelectricity, green certificates or CO2 credits: The Kyoto Protocol context
t38bfromeschlamadinger.pdf [798 KB]

Sergio Trindade
Ethanol
ethanolbfrometrindade.pdf [645 KB]

Roundtable discussion: Opportunities for sustainable development through bio-energy trade: conditions, developing schemes and certification.

EVENING: RECEPTION AND BUFFET AT FAO

Day 2 (Friday, 29 October 2004): (9:00 – 16:30)

Part 3: Trading experiences in other sectors

Paper & pulp (Wolfgang Schopfhauser, Papierholz Austria GmbH)
Study on availability from different points of view
papierholzaustrabfromewschopfhauser.pdf [1,818 KB]

Fossil fuels (Alexander Bethe, Billiton)
presentation not available

Electricity (Olav Hetland, Enviro Energi / Bjornar Otterstad, Eurel A/S)
De-regulation of the Norwegian electricity market
eurelenvirobfromebjornarotterstad.pdf [151 KB]

COFFEE BREAK: 11:00 – 11:20

Food and Fodder Jacques Jongenneel, Jongeneel
Lessons from worldwide feed and fodder trading
fodderbfromejongeneel.pdf [1,003 KB]

Fair trading schemes (Jeroen Douglas, Solidaridad)
solidaridadbfromejeroendouglas.pdf [1,137 KB]

Biomass Quality Logistics (Ger Ostermeijer, Control Union (Peterson))
Biomass requires a revised Quality Logistics System

Roundtable discussion: What can we learn from existing markets?

LUNCH: 12:30 – 14:00

Part 4: Task 40 and participating countries (national developments; country reports)
Experiences with using biofuel (Martijn Wagener, Essent Energy Trading, the Netherlands)
essentbfromemartijnwagener.pdf [2,013 KB]

Experience in Sweden (Bo Hektor,Tall Oil / Erik Ling)
swedenbfromelinghector.pdf [111 KB]

"Bioenergy in Norway - status 2004 and measures to secure future fuel supply and demand" (Havar Risnes).
norwaybfromeh.risnes.pdf [128 KB]

Brazil: Historic developments in Brazil and current opportunities (Prof. Dr. Arnaldo Walter)
brazilbfromeawalter.pdf [95 KB]

Experience in Finland (Prof. Dr. Tapio Ranta, Jussi Heinimö, Lappeenranta Technical University)
finlandpresentationtaskmeetingromeoct2004.pdf [118 KB]

Roundtable discussion: Concluding messages: what did we learn, key issues to address. How to proceed with the findings in Task 40

CLOSURE: 16:30.