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Intern Seminar FCSD
Wednesday October 3th 2007

Biomass for energy use: economic, social and ecological costs and benefits and the application of sustainability criteria

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Seminar

Biomassa

In the framework of Climate change and energy security, ambitious international targets were formulated for the use of biomass for energy purposes. But more and more questions are raised concerning the consequences for the environment, biodiversity, food prices, ... . The utilisation of biomass for energy purposes is becoming a very complex subject with a strong internatinoal dimension.

The FCSD is therefore organising for its members an internal seminar on the subject that will focus on the most important economical, social and ecological costs and benefits in the use of biomass for energy purposes and the application of sustainability criteria.

We make appeal on international experts to show us the way in opportunities, bottle necks and policy choises for the utilization of biomass. The seminar is open for members of the council, members of the working groups of the council en interested people from member organizations. Simultaneous translation is provided (Dutch, English, French).

You’ll find the program further on this page. The seminar takes place on Wednesday October 3th 2007, from 1.30 pm till 5.30pm. Venue is meeting room Storck within the FOD WASO, Ernest Blerotstraat 1, 1070 Brussels (close to the railway station). More information on the venue you’ll find here.

Languages: Dutch, French, English (translation is provided). The seminar is free of charge, but we kindly ask to register before September 28^th by phone 02/7433150 or by mail (ingrid.emmery@frdo.be)

Program

1.30 Introduction - by Dr. Dries Lesage (president of the working group International Relations)

1.35
Environmental balance: applications of biomass - Gustav Resch, Vienna University of Technology

optimal use of biomass for the production of electricity, heating and biofuels: actual use and projected use

qulitative aspects (efficiency of applications, GHG emissions, emissions of other particals, ...)

2.15
Production of biomass - Justus von Geibler, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

production potential (land use), trade (import/export), actual production, actual use and future use (who is producing and who is using), international trade, exporting or producing for own purposes?

2.55
Social-economic balance - Richard Doornbosch, OECD

consequences for development, agriculture, food prices, biodiversity, ...

3.35 Break

3.50
International en national policies biomass + evaluation - Kyriakos Maniatis, European Commission, DG TREN

International policy framework biofuels, approaches from countries (subsidies, fiscal policies, normation, ...) initiatives for SD criteria, ...

4.30 Questions

5.25
Preliminary Conclusions - by Dr. Dries Lesage

5.30 End

Organisation and speakers

FCSD - Dries Lesage - Gustav Resch - Justus von Geibler - Richard Doornbosch- Kyriakos Maniatis

Federal Council for Sustainable Development

De FRDO groepeert maatschappelijke organisaties en geeft adviezen aan de Belgische federale overheid over het beleid inzake duurzame ontwikkeling. Hij organiseert ook activiteiten om het draagvlak voor duurzame ontwikkeling te vergroten.

FRDO, Ernest Blerotstraat 17, 1070 Brussel
telefoon: 02-743 31 50; fax: 02-743 31 59
e-mail: mail@frdo-cfdd.be
website: http://www.frdo-cfdd.be/

Dries Lesage (Universiteit Gent)

Dr. Dries Lesage is als postdoctoraal onderzoeker FWO verbonden aan de Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen van de UGent. Hij verricht onderzoek en publiceert over mondialisering en het beheer van mondiale problemen. Hij doceert de vakken 'Theorie van de Internationale Betrekkingen' en 'Mondialisering en Global Governance'.

Gustav Resch (Viena University for Technology)

Gustav Resch joined the Institute of Energy Economics in 2000. He holds a degree in electrical engineering (Energy Technology) at Vienna University of Technology. His major fields of research are the promotion strategies for renewable energy sources as well as the integration of them in the liberalised electricity market.

http://www.eeg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/staff_detail.php?id=11

Justus von Geibler (Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy)

Project Co-ordinator Research Group 4: Sustainable Production and Consumption at the Wuppertal Institute. Justus von Geibler studied forestry at the Georg-August-Universität at Göttingen and Environmental Management and Policy at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics from the University of Lund (Sweden). In 2002 he became a Research fellow at the Wuppertal Institute, where he does research on Institutional change and biomass trade. He is specialized in SD indicators, reporting on compagnie and sector-level, governement structures for a sustainable production and consumption, sustainable forestry and stakeholderdialogue on global production chains and the evaluation of life-cycle based sustainable assessment of innovative technologies in the field of information and communication and biotechnology.

Richard Doornbosch (OESO)

M. Doornbosch worked in the financial world and at the Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands as a Senior Economist in the Directoraat Financieel en Economisch Beleid Nederland. Within OECD he is Principal Advisor for the Round Table on Sustainable Development, responsible for the management of the work of the Round Table on Sustainable Development, including fund-raising and day to day administration. He reports directly to the Chair of the Round Table, constructs the agenda and establishes and coordinates work program with governments, intergovernmental organizations and the private sector. He is also manager of projects on the technical potential of and economic outlook for clean energy technologies, technology deployment instruments and R&D priorities, carbon finance and illegal logging and deforestation.

Kyriakos Maniatis (European Commission, DG TREN)

European Commission, Biofuels and Industry, DG TREN. K. Maniatis gained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham in 1987. He has worked for more than 25 years on thermochemical conversion of biomass & waste and taught for 10 years engineering and management courses at the Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel..He has produced over 100 publications with research papers, conference proceedings, books and policy position papers. Over the last five years was member of the DG TREN team that produced the EU Directive for the promotion of biofuels for transport applications and follows up its developments. He contributed to the European Commission Communication “The Biomass Action Plan”. He also initiated the CEN standardisation work for solid biofuels, solid recover fuels, bioethanol as well as additional work on the biodiesel standard. He is the technical officer responsible for the demonstration projects in the area of biofuels for transport and polygeneration. He is the IEA Bioenergy ExCo member for the European Commission and served as the ExCo Chairman in 2002 and currently in 2005-2007.

FOD WASO

Texts

Gustav Resch: Environmental balance of bioenergy (Resch-EEG, Brussels 03-10-2007),

Justus von Geibler: Production and use of Biomass: high volumes for whom?

Richard Doornbosch: Presentation Belgian Council for Sustainable Development

Kyriakos Maniatis: 2007 KM Biomass Brussels Presentation

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