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Expressiosn of interest wanted!- Quantifying and managing land use impacts of bioenergy
10 March - Tasks 38, 40 and 43 are jointly organizing a workshop on land use impact of bioenergy in Campinas, Brazil on September 19-21 2011. This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art research assessing the impacts of the increasing allocation of land use to dedicated energy crops (e.g. land-use related GHG emissions, and impacts on biodiversity and environment), and providing strategies to mitigate them. Please download the full first announcement [58 KB]
, including the invitation to send us an expressions of interest until the 15th of March.
Workshop: development of torrefaction technologies and impact on global bioenergy use and international bioenergy trade - Presentations available online
8 February - IEA Bioenergy Task 32 and Task 40 jointly organised this workshop on torrefaction in Graz on Friday the 28th of January 2011, as a side-event of the Central European Biomass Conference (CEBC), Graz, Austria. With more than 250 participants, this was a huge success! All presentations are now available for download.
Japanese country report online
8 February - As latest addition to the comprehensive number of Task 40 country reports, the Japanese country report [109 KB]
(by Shinichi Goto, Mitsuharu Oguma and Yuji Iwasaki) covers the solid biomass trade (import) in Japan up until 2010.
Past workshop: International trade of bioenergy commodities: Experiences with certification and setting up sustainable supply chains, Rome, Italy, 21. Oct. 2010
1 November - All presentations are online & available for download, a workshop summary [516 KB]
is available as well. With over 100 participants, the workshop was very well attended, and with 16 speakers a lot of information was provided on ongoing policy developments and issues regarding the actual certificaiotn of solid and liquid biomass "on the ground".
Opportunities and barriers for international bioenergy trade & Updated overview of bioenergy sustainability certification initiatives published
As two of the top downloaded documents, the the link to the overview of barriers and opportunities for biomass trade [643 KB]
study and the overview of sustainability certification initiatives [1,812 KB]
study will remain on the front page of this website for a few more month. Both documents can also be found on our T40 reports/papers page.
A reliable supply of biomass and a reliable demand for bio energy is vital to develop stable market activities, aimed at bioenergy trade. Task 40, under the IEA Bioenergy Agreement, contributes to the development of sustainable biomass markets on short and on long term and on different scale levels (from regional to global). The future vision of this task on global biomass trade is that it develops over time into a real “commodity market” which will secure supply and demand in a sustainable way; sustainability brings a key factor for long-term security.
These webpages provide information about the activities of task 40 and its members. For an overview, see our work programme, the Task 40 leaflet [483 KB]
and our latest Task 40 newsletter. The Task is lead by Andre Faaij (Copernicus Institute / Utrecht University) and Peter-Paul Schouwenberg (RWE-Essent), assisted by Martin Junginger (Utrecht University).
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions regarding this website, please contact Martin Junginger (H.M.Junginger "at" uu.nl)