Governing sustainability in biomass supply chains for the bioeconomy
Thu, May 23
|Utrecht
To explore ways to establish sustainable supply chains for bioeconomic goods, this workshop will present an overview of relevant existing sustainability governance; what may be needed; and how can policy, market and civil society actors across sectors support a sustainable bioeconomy.
Time & Location
May 23, 2019, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Utrecht, World Trade Center Utrecht, Stadsplateau 2, Utrecht, The Netherlands
About the event
Introduction
Securing a sustainable supply of biomass is one of the key issues for deploying biobased energy, but also other biobased products. Given the ample debate on the sustainability of bioenergy and biofuels, it can be expected that similar requirements and governance systems will be discussed for other emerging biobased products, and existing bioeconomy commodities such as food & feed, fibers, timber etc.
The IEA "Technology Roadmap Delivering Sustainable Bioenergy" of 2017 identified a key action to develop and implement internationally recognized sustainability governance systems that cover all bioproducts and which support sustainable best practices and stimulate innovation.
This workshop kicks-off this work and presents an overview of what relevant sustainability governance already exists and what more may be needed, and how collaboration of policy and market actors across sectors as well as civil society could support a sustainable bioeconomy.
More specifically, the aim of the workshop will be to…