Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy Consultation meeting of the SOM-AMAF+3 and SOME+3 on Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) in ASEAN Bangkok, Thailand ~ 30-31 October 2012 Kevin R. Fingerman Programme Officer Global Bioenergy Partnership Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)
Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy
Consultation meeting of the SOM-AMAF+3 and SOME+3 on
Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) in ASEAN
Bangkok, Thailand ~ 30-31 October 2012
Kevin R. Fingerman
Programme Officer
Global Bioenergy Partnership
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
THE GLOBAL BIOENERGY PARTNERSHIP
GBEP PARTNERS AND OBSERVERS
36 Partners (23 governments – 13 organizations).
36 Observers (25 governments – 11 organizations). Recent additions: Denmark and Zimbabwe became Observers, Aug 2012.
GBEP’S OBJECTIVES
The main objectives of the Global Bioenergy Partnership are
to:
promote global high-level policy dialogue on bioenergy
and facilitate international cooperation;
support national and regional bioenergy policy-making
and market development;
favour the transformation of biomass use towards more
efficient and sustainable practices; and
foster exchange of information, skills and technologies
through bilateral and multilateral collaboration.
GBEP Sustainability Indicators for
Bioenergy
TASK FORCE ON SUSTAINABILITY
Established in June 2008
SCOPE
• To provide relevant, practical, science-based, voluntary sustainability criteria and indicators to guide analysis at the domestic level.
KEY ACHIEVEMENT
• December 2011 - finalized the report: “The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy”
www.globalbioenergy.org
WHAT MAKES THIS WORK UNIQUE
The Indicators are:
• Based on consensus among a broad
range of national governments and
international institutions;
• Intended to inform national-level policy
analysis and development;
• Intended to facilitate the
sustainable development
of bioenergy.
WHAT MAKES THIS WORK UNIQUE
The Indicators are NOT:
• Intended to set standards nor thresholds
• To be applied so as to limit trade in
bioenergy in a manner inconsistent with
multilateral trade obligations.
24 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS developed through consensus among participating countries
international organizations PILLARS
Environmental Social Economic
INDICATORS
1. Life-cycle GHG emissions 9. Allocation and tenure of land for new
bioenergy production
17. Productivity
2. Soil quality 10. Price and supply of a national food
basket
18. Net energy balance
3. Harvest levels of wood resources 11. Change in income 19. Gross value added
4. Emissions of non-GHG air
pollutants, including air toxics
12. Jobs in the bioenergy sector
20. Change in consumption of fossil
fuels and traditional use of biomass
5. Water use and efficiency 13. Change in unpaid time spent by
women and children collecting biomass
21. Training and re-qualification of the
workforce
6. Water quality 14. Bioenergy used to expand access
to modern energy services
22. Energy diversity
7. Biological diversity in the landscape 15. Change in mortality and burden of
disease attributable to indoor smoke
23. Infrastructure and logistics for
distribution of bioenergy
8. Land use and land-use change
related to bioenergy feedstock
production
16. Incidence of occupational injury,
illness and fatalities
24. Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy
24 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS developed through consensus among participating countries
international organizations PILLARS
Environmental Social Economic
INDICATORS
1. Life-cycle GHG emissions 9. Allocation and tenure of land for new
bioenergy production
17. Productivity
2. Soil quality 10. Price and supply of a national food
basket
18. Net energy balance
3. Harvest levels of wood resources 11. Change in income 19. Gross value added
4. Emissions of non-GHG air
pollutants, including air toxics
12. Jobs in the bioenergy sector
20. Change in consumption of fossil
fuels and traditional use of biomass
5. Water use and efficiency 13. Change in unpaid time spent by
women and children collecting biomass
21. Training and re-qualification of the
workforce
6. Water quality 14. Bioenergy used to expand access
to modern energy services
22. Energy diversity
7. Biological diversity in the landscape 15. Change in mortality and burden of
disease attributable to indoor smoke
23. Infrastructure and logistics for
distribution of bioenergy
8. Land use and land-use change
related to bioenergy feedstock
production
16. Incidence of occupational injury,
illness and fatalities
24. Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy
METHODOLOGY SHEETS
• Relevance of the indicator
– Relationships to other themes/indicators
– Utility for evaluating sustainability at the national level
• Scientific basis
– Methodology – data, definitions, research methods,
units
– Anticipated limitations and challenges
– Data requirements, data sources, data gaps
– Relevant international initiatives
– Key literature/sources
24 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS developed through consensus among participating countries
international organizations PILLARS
Environmental Social Economic
INDICATORS
1. Life-cycle GHG emissions 9. Allocation and tenure of land for new
bioenergy production
17. Productivity
2. Soil quality 10. Price and supply of a national food
basket
18. Net energy balance
3. Harvest levels of wood resources 11. Change in income 19. Gross value added
4. Emissions of non-GHG air
pollutants, including air toxics
12. Jobs in the bioenergy sector
20. Change in consumption of fossil
fuels and traditional use of biomass
5. Water use and efficiency 13. Change in unpaid time spent by
women and children collecting biomass
21. Training and re-qualification of the
workforce
6. Water quality 14. Bioenergy used to expand access
to modern energy services
22. Energy diversity
7. Biological diversity in the landscape 15. Change in mortality and burden of
disease attributable to indoor smoke
23. Infrastructure and logistics for
distribution of bioenergy
8. Land use and land-use change
related to bioenergy feedstock
production
16. Incidence of occupational injury,
illness and fatalities
24. Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy
24 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS developed through consensus among participating countries
international organizations PILLARS
Environmental Social Economic
INDICATORS
1. Life-cycle GHG emissions 9. Allocation and tenure of land for new
bioenergy production
17. Productivity
2. Soil quality 10. Price and supply of a national food
basket
18. Net energy balance
3. Harvest levels of wood resources 11. Change in income 19. Gross value added
4. Emissions of non-GHG air
pollutants, including air toxics
12. Jobs in the bioenergy sector
20. Change in consumption of fossil
fuels and traditional use of biomass
5. Water use and efficiency 13. Change in unpaid time spent by
women and children collecting biomass
21. Training and re-qualification of the
workforce
6. Water quality 14. Bioenergy used to expand access
to modern energy services
22. Energy diversity
7. Biological diversity in the landscape 15. Change in mortality and burden of
disease attributable to indoor smoke
23. Infrastructure and logistics for
distribution of bioenergy
8. Land use and land-use change
related to bioenergy feedstock
production
16. Incidence of occupational injury,
illness and fatalities
24. Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy
24 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS developed through consensus among participating countries
international organizations PILLARS
Environmental Social Economic
INDICATORS
1. Life-cycle GHG emissions 9. Allocation and tenure of land for new
bioenergy production
17. Productivity
2. Soil quality 10. Price and supply of a national food
basket
18. Net energy balance
3. Harvest levels of wood resources 11. Change in income 19. Gross value added
4. Emissions of non-GHG air
pollutants, including air toxics
12. Jobs in the bioenergy sector
20. Change in consumption of fossil
fuels and traditional use of biomass
5. Water use and efficiency 13. Change in unpaid time spent by
women and children collecting biomass
21. Training and re-qualification of the
workforce
6. Water quality 14. Bioenergy used to expand access
to modern energy services
22. Energy diversity
7. Biological diversity in the landscape 15. Change in mortality and burden of
disease attributable to indoor smoke
23. Infrastructure and logistics for
distribution of bioenergy
8. Land use and land-use change
related to bioenergy feedstock
production
16. Incidence of occupational injury,
illness and fatalities
24. Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy
Indicator 22 Energy diversity
ONGOING WORK
• Indicators are being implemented in a
variety of contexts;
• Working Group of Capacity Building for
Sustainable Bioenergy;
– Regional forum activities
– Study tours in planning
• GBEP welcomes new collaborators;
– Indicator measurement
– Partners and Observers
Thank you!
For further information please contact:
Further information are available at:
http://www.globalbioenergy.org
PILOTING THE GBEP INDICATORS
Indonesia & Colombia Project
Objectives:
i. Assess and enhance the capacity of Indonesia and Colombia to
evaluate bioenergy sustainability using the GBEP indicators and use
them to inform bioenergy policymaking; and
ii. Learn lessons about how to apply the indicators as a tool for
sustainable development and how to enhance their practicality.
Project began in October 2011 – Expected to end on December 2012.
Upcoming meetings
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Jakarta/Bogor: 1-7 November, 2012:
Bogotá: 6-13 December, 2012
• Technical Sessions
– Consultants present work in detail, discuss methodologies
– Technical audience
– Outputs of key messages and monitoring recommendations for workshops
• Project Conclusions Workshops
– Discuss high-level results and recommendations with wider audience
– Stakeholders list – XX invited to Indo from these groups
– Break-out sessions on key issues including food security, indirect effects,
GHG/LCA, biodiversity/habitat, etc.
• Regional Forum
– Invites to…
– Sharing of lessons, outcomes, experiences among governments
– Building on existing networks and momentum
– Key issues panel – LUC, food security, international policy, certification
– Harmonization of analysis/policy, role for GBEP, priorities for cooperation 19
Status Update 2 Countries, 2 Contexts, 2 Approaches
• Fundamentally different approaches
• Indonesia team is taking an in-depth case study approach
– Several representative study sites for several supply chains
– Teams broken down by study site
– Field studies look to collect data en masse for all indicators
• Colombia team - more nationally representative average sample
– This has led to more reliance on secondary data - field validated
– Teams broken down by indicator
– In-depth evaluation on individual indicators one at a time
• Colombia primary data collection has proven challenging due to
industry reticence/organization
– Working to bring industry groups into the process more actively
– Ongoing collaboration 20
GOVERNING BIOENERGY (OR GUIDING ITS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT)
In general terms, there are three steps required to govern bioenergy or
guide its sustainable development:
• knowing the right thing to do, which requires:
• an analytical framework that can be applied to specific settings;
• information, evidence and the technical capacity to gain these;
• inclusive, participatory decision-making;
• enabling people to do the right thing, which requires:
• dissemination of information, transfer of knowledge, extension services,
capacity building;
• an enabling legal, policy and institutional environment (clear, transparent,
stable, low administrative burden);
• incentivizing people to do the right thing, which may involve:
• reinforcing and changing behaviour through incentives (internalizing the
externalities/payment for ecosystem services/carbon taxes/certification) or
obligations (biofuel mandates/polluter pays/thresholds). Part I
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