Global Bioenergy Project kicks off with European convention, resolution
In the Netherlands, a global group of scientists kicked off the Global Bioenergy Project with a European Convention at the Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation in Delft. A European Resolution was drawn up at the end of the three day meeting. Four more resolutions will follow from the remaining continental conventions, highlighting continental and regional opportunities and challenges.
A final global Common Resolution will incorporate the regional resolutions to form a final agreed global white paper.
The European resolution stated: “Europe’s energy portfolio today is neither secure nor sustainable. It is dependent on fossil fuel imports that are subject to political and economic disruption and result in global environmental change. Bioenergy produced in sustainable ways is a necessary component of the set of solutions needed to address the forces of climate change, energy security and rural development…To achieve these benefits, agriculture and bioenergy policy must be integrated for the sustainable and synergistic production of food, fibre, chemicals and bioenergy….Examples of the integrative benefits of bioenergy include the simultaneous production of bioenergy and food through double cropping, the exploitation of wastes and residues, recovery of protein and nutrients for animal feed and fertilisers, the use of perennial crops to enhance ecosystem services and redesigning landscapes to enhance resilience and productivity.”
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