News from IINAS

Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Workshops

Meet us at the 2017 World Water Week in Stockholm where IINAS contributes to the GBEP side event "Bioenergy, water and SDG implementation: Experiences and linkages" on August 31 from 9.00 - 10.30 h.

IINAS will contribute to the 2nd International Bioeconomy Congress (September 12-13, 2017 in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany) with regard to sustainability of the bioeconomy.

AND: As part of an ongoing IEA Bioenergy project on sustainable bioenergy, we'd appreciate if you would fill out a brief questionnaire (open until end of the year) - this will take only a few minutes to complete - thank you in advance!

Now available

Presentations at the International Workshop of the GBEP Task Force on Sustainability "Linkages between Sustainable Development Goals and GBEP Sustainability Indicators" in Bonn, 3-4 July 2017
The European Commission held a workshop on "Life Cycle Analysis for Carbon Capture & Utilisation" on June 6, 2017 in Brussels to which IINAS contributed (see live web stream and documentation)
Presentations of the international workshop of the IEA Bioenergy Intertask Sustainability project "Sustainability of Bioenergy Supply Chains" in Gothenburg, May 17-18, 2017
IINAS contributed to the IEA Workshop "Sustainability Governance Bioenergy" April 25, 2017 in Paris - see Documentation. and to the Global Soil Week, May 22-24,2017 in Berlin
GEMIS model and database (version 4.95 - update April 2017) as ZIP file
The IEA Bioenergy response to the Chatham House report on GHG balances of bioenergy was supported not only by IINAS, but by many colleagues - thanks for this!
New article "Strategy Elements for a Sustainable Bioenergy Policy Based on Scenarios and Systems Modeling: Germany as Example" to which IINAS contributed (free download)
Study for IEA-RETD on integrating 1st and 2nd generation biofuel plants: RES-T-BIOPLANT
Selected results from GEMIS (version 4.95 - January 2017) in an Excel file
Article: Berndes, Göran & Fritsche, Uwe (2016) May we have some more land use change, please?
Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 10: 195–197 (free download)

Sustainable Land Use

INAS contributed to the Global Soil Week May 22-24, 2017 in Berlin - see e.g., Results of Workshop 3 on "Sustainable Consumption and Land Degradation Neutrality" an the Input of IINAS to WG3.
For the overall results of the Global Soil Week 2017 see Report of IISD
IINAS supports the European-wide campaign People 4 Soil - this important action is now entering its final and we would be happy if you support this...for questions please contact Ulrike Eppler, who participated in a meeting of German People4Soil supporters during the Global Soil Week (see foto, 2nd from right)
IINAS in collaboration with an international team of co-authors is currently preparing a working paper on "Land and energy" for the UNCCD Global Land Outlook - more soon...
Final report and working papers from the GLOBALANDS project

Sustainability of Bioenergy and Biofuels

IINAS is a partner in the new IEA Bioenergy InterTask Project "Measuring, governing and gaining support for sustainable bioenergy supply chains” which is carried out in cooperation with the universities Chalmers, Laval/Quebec and Utrecht as well as ORNL and will run until 2018.
The EU Biomass Policies project prepared its final report
The EU BiomassTrade2020plus project concluded with several new papers
English summary of the Milestones 2030 project "Elements and milestones for the development of a stable and sustainable bioenergy strategy" (2015)
For more info see biomass project page and downloads of earlier work

Energy, Climate and Environmental Analyses

Selected results from GEMIS for energy and transport systems in Excel file
Comparison of GHG emissions from unconventional natural gas ("fracking") in key studies; prepared for ExxonMobil Production Germany (updated August 2014)
updated and extended GEMIS documents
IINAS is now partner in the World Bank's Platform for Climate-Smart Planning, providing GEMIS as a tool.