Biomass power and trade conference - 11-12 March 2010, Rotterdam The Netherlands

On March 11 and 12 2010, CMT organized a biomass power and trade conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with support from IEA Bioenergy Task 40. The conference aimed to provide opportunities for future and existing biofuels and biomass industry stakeholders to network other industry suppliers and technology providers, as well as utility executives, researchers, policy makers, investors and project developers. IEA Bioenergy Task 40 contributed a large number of speakers on the biomass trade situation in various Task 40 member countries, sustainability certification, torrefaction developments and several other topics. The full program [1,101 KB] and a summary of the conference [448 KB] can be downloaded. The presentations are availabe on request from the individual speakers.

Joint workshop: International trade of bioenergy commodities: Experiences with certification and setting up sustainable supply chains

EUBIONETIII and IEA Bioenergy Task 40 are jointly organising a workshop in Rome, Italy on the 21st of October 2010. The aims of this workshop are:

1) To provide an overview of experiences and regarding sustainability certification, including the current status of legislation in the EU and elsewhere.
2) To show concrete case studies of ongoing sustainable international supply chains – both for solid and liquid biomass.
3) To identify and discuss both opportunities to develop sustainable international bioenergy supply chains and identify (policy) barriers to be overcome.

The morning session will mainly focus on ongoing development of sustainability certification systems of solid and liquid bioenergy commodities and effects on international trade. In the afternoon session, we aim to highlight six or seven concrete case studies in which sustainable international supply chains have been set up. The workshop will be free, but registration is mandatory. For more information, please download the preliminary workshop programme [151 KB] .



Events in 2011

For 2011, two events are foreseen at the moment: a workshop on torrefaction in in Austria in February 2010 in cooperation with Task 32, and a workshop on indirect land use change and sustainabel biomass production in cooperation with Task 38 in Brazil in the fall of 2011. More detaisl will be published over the course of 2010.

All activities held in between 2004 and 2009 can be found on the past activities page.