News from IINAS

Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Workshops

IINAS presented results on the sustainability of biomass imports as part of the bioeconomy on June 4, 2015 during the 23th European Biomass Conference in Vienna. On June 15, IINAS gave a keynote on sustainable biomass at the Symposium Biorefinery for Food, Fuels and Materials 2015 in Montpellier.

Now available

• New presentations, papers and workshop reports from GLOBALANDS

• Selected results from GEMIS for energy and transport systems in Excel file
• Updated database for GEMIS (version 4.94) as ZIP file
• Primary Energy Factors for EU-28 electricity 2010-2013 and selected EU heating systems (March 2015)
• Country Report Germany 2014 for IEA Bioenergy Task 40 (January 2015)
• English Summary  of the study "Environmental Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing ("Fracking"), prepared for the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA). October 2014

Sustainable Land Use

• see GLOBALANDS project page

Sustainability of Bioenergy and Biofuels

• The EU Biomass Policies project prepared several briefs
• A short report on the FAO-UNECE Panel during the GFFA 2015
• Report of the Application of the GBEP Indicators for Germany, in collaboration with IFEU (Dec. 2014)
• Article "Sustainability Criteria and Indicators for the Bio-Based Economy in Europe: State of Discussion and Way Forward"; Leire Iriarte and Uwe Fritsche; in: Energies 2014 vol. 7 no. 11, pp. 6825-6836
• Presentations and outcome of the IEA Bioenergy/EEA/JRC/IINAS Workshop on Forest C Balances, May 2014 in Copenhagen 
• Presentations at the International Workshop "Towards Sustainable International Biomass Trade Strategies" 24 Oct.  2014 in Brussels, organized by the EU BiomassTrade2020plus project and IEA Bioenergy Task 40
• 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
• Updated database for GEMIS (version 4.94) as ZIP file
• Brief study: The non-renewable primary energy use and GHG emissions of the national electricity generation mix in Germany in 2013 and outlook to 2015 and 2020, prepared for HEA, August 2014 (in German)
• 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.