Biomass

Each year, EUBCE brings together the greatest minds and latest advancements in biomass, with the aim of accelerating research and market uptake across the globe. During the conference, over 2,000 experts from both academia and industry share and discuss groundbreaking ideas, technologies, applications, and solutions for the sourcing, production, and utility of biomass.

Social impacts (both positive and negative) are currently not addressed in REDII and EU national legislation. However, the public debate shows a keen interest in social issues for all supply chains, including biomass production and processing. Social risks are specific to local and regional conditions. How can we learn from the experience of other supply chains to find a practical and impactful way to address social risks and promote benefits?

What timeframes are acceptable for bioenergy systems to deliver climate benefits compared to fossil energy systems? How can these timeframes be determined (with a simple set of rules for a wide variety of settings)? The role for certification schemes, such as SBP, in guaranteeing climate benefits

The new nova paper #14 gives an overview on the status and sustainability assessments of new food and biomass technologies such as organic farming, insect protein, artificial meat, precision agriculture, vertical urban farming and improved plant varieties.

While biodiversity safeguards are an integral part of both REDII and all voluntary certification schemes, questions remain over whether these criteria are sufficient and whether they can be implemented effectively.

The second international Drivers for Wood Construction event including Rothoschool on tour will be held in Joensuu 21.-22.10.2020. The seminar will focus on the most recent challenges of the construction industry such as future building solutions, low carbon construction, technical and structural details of timber buildings, and finally, on the building codes in respect of fire and BIM.

Work is under way to develop a novel plant to purify biogas to be used in electricity production.

EIB signs €30 million agreement with Asper Investment Management for its Dorothea investment vehicle, which will acquire and build at least four district heating projects in the Netherlands.

How do forest owners, biomass producers and end-users, as exporting and importing countries, view the REDII criteria? Observations on Article 26, para 5 sustainability criteria for forest biomass (LULUCF. Perspectives from countries not ratifying the Paris Agreement.

Variation in the implementation of sustainability safeguards between Member States; how wide is the gap and what can be done to minimise it? What makes good regulation for biomass; what lessons have been learnt?

A new study published by the European Forest Institute calls for collective action to put nature at the heart of the economy and set the world on a sustainable path.

Heavy industries both facilitate and complicate the transition to a net-zero emissions energy system

Its true potential, yet to be exploited, lies in its use for the production of food for human consumption (pasta, bread, soups and vegetable creams ...) and animal feed.

Results of seven years of market research published

Please save the dates for a series of joint workshops by SBP, IEA Bioenergy and ETIP Bioenergy devoted to exploring REDII implementation and delivering good woody biomass.

Biodegradable shoes meet commercial standards for products needed to help eradicate tons of plastic waste

Researchers of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) completed an international joint project to create a resource and CO2-neutral energy closed-loop technology from microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana and duckweed Lemna minor.

An optical fiber made of agar has been produced at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This device is edible, biocompatible and biodegradable. It can be used in vivo for body structure imaging, localized light delivery in phototherapy or optogenetics (e.g., stimulating neurons with light to study neural circuits in a living brain), and localized drug delivery.

Process could make wood more usable as a substitute for fossil resources