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Matt Rudolf, Regional Manager, Americas29 September 2011

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Voluntary standards used to improve production practices in many industry sectors

Not all biofuels are the same; certification helps to distinguish between good and bad actors.

The Case for Voluntary Certification

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Stakeholder meetings held throughout the world

Thousands participated in the standards development through in person meetings and electronic discussion

Standard Setting: Community Driven

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Multi-stakeholder Membership Base

RSB Steering

Board

Chamber 1 - Feedstock Producers

(Solazyme, Sun Bioffuels, Fedepalma, etc.)

Chamber 2 - Biofuel Producers

(BP, Poet, Neste Oil, etc.)

Chamber 3 - Retailers Transport/Investors(Boeing, Airbus, IDB, SAFUG, Shell, etc.)

Chamber 4 - NGOs & Trade Unions

(ALU-TUCP, NUPAWU, Sucre Ethique, etc.)

Chamber 5 - Devt, smallholder & indigenous

people organisations(German NGO Forum,

Funcation Solar, MFC, etc.)

Chamber 6 - Envt, Conservation &

Climate(WWF, IUCN, CI,

Wetlands Int, etc.)

Chamber 7 - Research, Govt, IGOs

(Swiss Government; Berkeley, UNEP, FAO, etc.)

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Co-chair Co-Chair AlternateChamber 1

Khoo Hock Aun, Cosmo Biofuels  Representative, Solazyme  Chamber 2

Mitch Hawkins, Biojet CorporationDamiana Serafini, Biocombustibles Sustentables Argentina S.A./BSA

Chamber 3

Maarten van Dijk, SkyNRGThomas Rötger, International Air Transport Association

Liza Cushion, Inter-American Development Bank

Chamber 4Arturo Barrit, Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Omara Amuko, National Union of Plantation and Agricultural Workers, Uganda

Homero Fuentes, Commission for the Verification of Codes of Conduct, Guatemala

Chamber 5

Jürgen Maier, German NGO Forum Environment

Leonardo Rosario, Trowel Development Foundation

Salvador Feranil, Philippine Network of Rural Development Institutes

Chamber 6Barbara Bramble, National Wildlife Federation

Hafeez Rehman, The Energy Resources Institute, India Laszlo Mathe, World Wildlife Fund

Chamber 7Kevin Fingerman, University of California, Berkeley

Martina Otto, United Nations Environment Programme

James Onchieku, Kenya Forestry Research Institute

Current RSB Steering Board

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RSB Certification Systems: Central Elements

Separating these 3 central functions: avoids conflict of

interest, and

ensures comprehensive, consistent, credible, transparent, effective and efficient implementation of the different parts of the RSB certification systems

Standard Setting

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Verification

Accreditation Body

Certification Bodies

Implementation

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reporting of :certificates

risk assessmentsrisk management reports

self evaluationsindependent audits

application Self Risk Assessment &

Self Evaluation

decision by the RSB

SOE

Compliance with RSB Standard for

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Engagement with Certification Body

audit planning

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independent audit

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Overview of the Certification System

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Open to Varied Feedstocks and Products

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Need for feedstock-neutral approach – Biodiesel may be produced from many different feedstocks

Users want to be able to make a claim for a sustainable mix under a single certificate.

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Principle 1: Legality

Principle 2: Planning, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement

Principle 3: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Principle 4: Human and Labor Rights

Principle 5: Rural and Social Development

Principle 6: Local Food Security

Principle 7: Conservation

Principle 8: Soil

Principle 9: Water

Principle 10: Air

Principle 11: Use of Technology, Inputs, and Management of Waste

Principle 12: Land Rights

Principles for Sustainable Biofuel Production

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Based on attributional LCA modeling

IPCC (Tier 1) direct land-use change emissions factors

Ecoinvent database emissions factors for inputs

Co-production allocation by economic value

Global, average fossil fuel baseline

Real operator input data, audited by third parties, across the entire biofuel supply chain

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Participating Operator Concept

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Producer Cooperative

Participating Operator Concept

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Vertically Integrated

Supply Chain

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Rapid biofuels growth and high commodity prices emphasize the need for credible standards

The greatest strength of the RSB standard is its broad stakeholder support in the NGO, public and private sectors

RSB Tool includes a user-friendly, freely available, and scientifically credible GHG calculator for biofuels

RSB is in the process of beginning its first certification activities now

Conclusions and timeline

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Matthew Rudolf

Regional Manager, Americas

[email protected]

http://www.rsb.org

Thank you!