News from IINAS

Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Workshops

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

• 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)

• 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.