News from IINAS
Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Workshops
Due to the Corona pandemic, most events are canceled or postponed - but notably, the 28th EUBCE from July 6-9, 2020 id fully online, and BBEST – Biofuture Summit II is expected to take place Nov 30-Dec 2, 2020 in Sao Paulo.
The World Bank Land Conference will take place in March 2021.
Our offices are closed, but staff continues working from home offices.
We all wish you to stay safe and healthy - it is in our hands.
Now available
- Brochure "The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy - A TOOL FOR POLICY-MAKERS" (June 2020)
- Working paper (in German) of WWF and IINAS on the state of "sustainable palm oil (June 2020)
- SDG implementation in selected Latin America and Caribbean countries and possibilities to link with the GBEP Sustainability Indicators.Technical Paper by IINAS prepared for GBEP (Nov. 2019)
- GEMIS version 5.0 - model and database update (Sept. 2019) as ZIP file (11 MB)
- Workhop documentation "Governing sustainability in biomass supply chains for the bioeconomy", May 23, 2019 in Utrecht
Sustainable Land Use
- Presentation Energy and Land Use: A contribution to the UNCCD Global Land Outlook at the Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World, March 19-23, 2018, World Bank, Washington, DC
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Working paper "Land and energy" (corrected version!) for the UNCCD Global Land Outlook prepared by IINAS in collaboration with an international team of co-authors, including IINAS SAB members Helen Watson and IINAS associate Göran Berndes
- Article: Berndes, Göran & Fritsche, Uwe (2016) May we have some more land use change, please? Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 10: 195–197 (free download)
Sustainability of the Bioeconomy, Bioenergy and Biofuels
- IINAS was a partner in the IEA Bioenergy InterTask Project "Measuring, governing and gaining support for sustainable bioenergy supply chains” which was carried out in cooperation with the universities Chalmers, Laval/Quebec and Utrecht as well as ORNL
- For more info see biomass project page and downloads of earlier work
Energy, Climate and Environmental Analyses
- GEMIS version 5.0 - model and database update (Sept. 2019) as ZIP file
- Selected results from GEMIS 5.0 for energy and transport systems in Excel file (coming sooe)
- IINAS is partner in the World Bank's Platform for Climate-Smart Planning, providing GEMIS as a tool.