Workshop on developing meaningful bioenergy trade statistics

25 February, 2008, Paris, France

There is a clear need for more elaborate biomass trade statistics and to make an inventory of ongoing activities by different international bodies to collect these statistics. Therefore IEA Bioenergy Task 40 organized an expert workshop with the following objectives:

1. To bring together various institutions currently involved in collecting international biomass trade statistics (such as the IEA Statistical & renewable energy divisions, Eurostat, FAO, UN ECE / Timber Section, the European Commission and others) for information dissemination and exchange; to summarize which data is currently collected, what is lacking, and what data would be required to fulfill various needs from industry, academia and policy makers.

2. To explore the possibilities to set up a framework for the development of international biomass trade statistics and consistent mapping of international trade flows.

The proceedings [49 KB] of the workshop can be downloaded here. Also, final working paper [340 KB] was published in july 2008, based amongst others on the inputs of the workshop.


Presentations:

Ralph Sims (IEA / ETO - Renewable Energy unit)
Current activities and future work on biomass in IEA Renewable Energy Unit [284 KB]

Zuzana Dobrotkova (IEA - Energy Statistic Division)
IEA’s renewables and wastes energy statistics [68 KB]

Richard Sikkema (Copernicus Institute) – Developing meaningful statistics for sustainable bio-energy trade [738 KB]

Jussi Heinimö (University of Lappeenranta, Finland) – Methodological issues regarding indirect biomass trade [310 KB]

Bo Hektor (IEA Bioenergy Task 40 - Sweden) - Bio-energy Trade- a non-existing Phenomenon? [210 KB]

Kit Prins (UNECE/FAO Timber Section) - UNECE/FAO TIMBER and FORESTRY PROGRAMME [40 KB]
Florian Steierer (University Hamburg - Centre of Wood Science ) - Improved information on wood energy production and trade [252 KB]

Jeremy Wall (EC - DG ENTR) - European Commission services’ inputs [118 KB]
France Lafargue (AFNOR) - Standardization for Solid bio-fuels and Solid Recovered Fuels [117 KB]