Mobilisation of forest bioenergy: Green dream or reality? – Workshop in EUBCE 2016

Workshop at the 24th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition

Renewable energy roadmaps of various international energy and climate change agencies suggest that the amount of modern bioenergy in the future global energy mix needs to increase significantly to replace the use of fossil fuel and traditional biomass.

Countries with mature forestry sectors from the boreal and temperate biomes are expected to play an important role in the mobilisation of forest biomass and contribute to reach the targets set by international agencies.

Recent research of IEA Bioenergy has identified a series of opportunities and solutions for increasing mobilisation of forest bioenergy related to biomass procurement practices, supply chain logistics, bioenergy conversion technologies, environmental sustainability, policy and socio-economic aspects of bioenergy supply chains. However, it remains to be seen how realistic, feasible, practical and applicable in various contexts those solutions will be for reaching the global bioenergy targets described in future energy scenarios and roadmaps.

Organised by IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and the SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub in this event a number of challenges, key opportunities and innovative solutions for forest bioenergy mobilisation will be discussed by experts from academia, government and industry.