UN Environment Program launches Bioenergy Issue Paper Series to bring emerging bioenergy topics into focus

At the United Nations, the UN Environment Program has launched the UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series: Bringing emerging bioenergy topics into focus. The UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series will be releasing a new paper every month, and topics will be chosen as they appear.

The first issue is covering land use, land use change and bioenergy in response to the recent debate about its relative impacts, which is reflected in current policy formulation and within the scientific community.  This paper, inspired by discussions from the 2nd Joint International Workshop on Bioenergy, Biodiversity Mapping and Degraded Lands, considers bioenergy in the context of global land use pressures.

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