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1 26.11.2014 Author: Susanne Köppen

ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH

The Global Bioenergy

Partnership (GBEP) –

Sustainability Indicators for

Bioenergy

Susanne Köppen

Louvain-la-Neuve, 26. November 2014



Content

1 The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)

2 The GBEP sustainability indicators

3 The indicator application in Germany



International partnership that intensively deals with the

topic „sustainable bioenergy“

Founded in 2006 at the G8 summmit in Gleneagles (Italian

initiative)

Objectives:

Support national and regional bioenergy policy-making and market

development (especially in developing countries)

Promotion of sustainable bioenergy development and use

Platform for exchange and sharing of information and experience

among national governments and international organisations

The „Global Bioenergy Partnership“

The GBEP

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Partners & Observers

The GBEP 1

Partners: 23 countries and 14 international organisations Observers: 26 countries and 11 International organisations



GBEP Structure

The GBEP 1



Content






May 2011: agreement on 24 sustainability indicators for

bioenergy

Accompanied by extensive report

Description of each indicator

Methodological guidance for their assessment

The GBEP sustainability indicators

The sustainability indicators 2




The sustainability indicators

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Indicators are to be applied at national level with

following objectives:

Assistance for policy makers in development and evaluation of

national bioenergy programmes and policies

Implementation of a monitoring system

Cannot be used for assessing single products, companies,

value chains (no certification)

Should not serve to assess effects in third countries



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Working Group on Capacity Building:

promote the dissemination, use, and implementation of the GHG

methodology and the sustainability indicators

Within Activity Group 2, several countries are undertaking

pilot projects to test the indicators in practice

The pilots are at different stages and vary in the

approach taken

Results are fed back into the GBEP process for improving

indicators and methodology

Guiding document is created

Task force on sustainability probably re-established

Valuable information and capacity exchange among countries

Application of the GBEP sustainability Indicators


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ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH The sustainability indicators

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Who‘s active

within

Activity

Group 2?

Member Implementation of GBEP indicators

of AG 2 Done in process committed

Argentina X X

Brazil X

Cambodia X

China X

Colombia X X

ECOWAS X

Egypt X

Ethiopia X

FAO X

Germany X X

Ghana X X

IDB X

Indonesia X X

Italy X X

IRENA X

Jamaica X

Japan X X

Kenya X

Mauritania X

Netherlands X X

Paraguay X X

United States of America X X

Sudan X X

Switzerland X

UNEP X

Vietnam X



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Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

Step 1: desk top study

What data is available and who can provide it?

What are corresponding laws and regulations?

Are there monitoring and reporting obligations already established?

Step 2: workshop phase

Workshops for each pillar with participants from policymaking, industry, social and environmental experts and stakeholders

Query the indicators, develop proposals how to sharpen them, improve practicality, raising acceptance + awareness

Sustainability indicator application in Germany

Indicator application in Germany 3



Indicator application in Germany – Results




In general, the GBEP indicators are mostly applicable and

cover the whole scope of sustainability at large

Many data are already collected on a regular basis

E.g. GHG, air pollutants, water quality

The indicators should be applied as a full set, however,

five indicators (13, 14, 15, 21, 23) have been excluded from the

beginning due to reasonable considerations of their given

irrelevance concerning the German situation;

the assessment has shown that six more indicators (5, 9, 10, 11,

16, 19, 24) are of minor relevance in Germany.


Indicator application in Germany

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ENVIRONMENTAL PILLAR SOCIAL PILLAR ECONOMIC PILLAR

1) Lifecycle Green House Gas (GHG) emissions

9) Allocation and tenure of land for new bioenergy production

17) Productivity

2) Soil quality 10) Price and supply of national food basket

18) Net energy balance

3) Harvest levels of wood resources

11) Change in income 19) Gross value added

4) Emissions of non-GHG, air pollutants, including air toxics (NOx, SO2, ...)

12) Jobs in the bioenergy Sector

20) Change in the consumption of fossil fuels and traditional use of biomass

5) Water use and efficiency 13) Change in unpaid time spent by women and children collecting biomass

21) Training and re-qualification of the workforce

6) Water quality 14) Bioenergy used to expand access to modern energy services

22) Energy diversity

7) Biological diversity in the landscape

15) Change in mortality and burden of disease attributable to indoor smoke

23) Infrastructure and logistics for distribution of bioenergy

8) Land use and land-use change related to bioenergy feed stock production

16) Incidence of occupational injury, illness and fatalities

24) Capacity and flexibility of use of bioenergy



Proposal for some additional sub-indicators

Although many data are collected, they are often not

available in a way that directly answers the indicator

(e.g. water quality)

Difficult to attribute effects of bioenergy against effects

from biomass used for food, feed or other purposes

Simple allocation proposed (share of biomass used for bioenergy)

Effects of imports not taken into account (e.g. water and

social effects elsewhere)

Often for indicators with low relevance in Germany

Some have been extended to global level (e.g. GHG)


Indicator application in Germany

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Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH

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