Bioenergy needs to grow to achieve Global Climate and Development Goals
To raise awareness on sustainable bioenergy’s critical role in the global energy transition, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has issued a joint statement alongside Clean Energy Ministerial Biofuture Platform Initiative, FAO, International Energy Agency (IEA), IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe , UNDP, and UNIDO .
To limit global warming to 1.5°C, the IRENA forecasts that bioenergy will have to almost triple its share of the total final energy consumption (TPEC) by 2050, passing from its current 7% to over 18%. By decarbonizing tough sectors, supporting renewables, and enhancing energy resilience, bioenergy is key to limit global warming. Beyond its role in achieving climate goals, bioenergy supports development goals by boosting energy security, rural development, job creation, and poverty eradication.
Through good governance, bioenergy – as part of the greater bio-economy – can contribute to addressing risks related to land and resource use, food security, natural ecosystems, and carbon stocks, while promoting equity, justice, and economic competitiveness. Bioenergy Europe has put together a series of recommendations for the new leadership of the European Union to unleash the sector’s potential and push forward the energy transition.
Fossil Fuel Reliance Stalls EU Pellet Market Growth
Last month, Bioenergy Europe released its Statistical Report on Pellets and its Policy Brief. The report analyses the development of the world’s pellet market over the past year with a deep dive into the European market.
After two remarkable years, marked by record consumption and production, as well as record sales of pellet-based appliances, the global pellet industry in stagnated in 2023, breaking a 2 decade-long trend of uninterrupted growth. The challenges facing the European pellet industry are threefold: higher input prices, falling industrial demand, and a record warm winter.
Despite these challenges, the European Union remains the world’s largest pellet producer and consumer. It produces 44% of the worlds pellets and consumes 50%. The use of pellets for heating in the residential market remained strong. In 2023 the share of residential and commercial consumption of pellets reached 59%, the highest in a decade.
Stepping up the future of BECCS: DNV gives greenlight to new methodology for carbon removals
A new methodology quantifying the contribution of BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage) to climate change mitigation, has been validated by DNV.
On 2023, Stockholm Exergi and Drax Group , in collaboration with EcoEngineers and McKinsey & Company , developed a methodology to quantify the volumes of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere and define safeguards to ensure the sustainability of CDR techniques. This comprehensive methodology covers all critical aspects to ensure high-integrity, verified, sustainable, and permanent removals using BECCS. Following a thorough assessment, DNV , an independent energy organization leader in testing, certification, and technical advisory services to the energy sector, validated the methodology.
This validation is a significant milestone for the future market and development of BECCS technologies. It provides buyers of carbon dioxide removals (CDRs) delivered using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) with confidence in the integrity of these removals. Moreover, the methodology supports the development of the voluntary carbon market for CDRs, which is crucial for scaling these technologies and achieving Net-Zero goals.
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5moThe GREEN Philippines. Strategy is simple. Implement Pilot Project then repeat at 500 other locations and create 250k jobs for unskilled or unemployed workers. Hopefully most will find this interesting. Initially the Philippines renewable biomass energy project was to invite the major corporations, San Miguel and Coca-cola to participate but soon realized that in it's then format, was much to big financially and logistically for these 2 majors to participate. It was at this point when the Pilot Project was devised. This was not simply a physical reduction is size but also to include certain aspects which when implemented would ensure a massive increase in job creation in depressed regions. Meeting the UN climate expectations well within the required time frame was obviously a plus, as was, when perfected and established in a number of other locations, greatly reduce the demand on the Water Table. For the Clever people who can use a calculator. 340million dividend by 10 equals 34 million. That's 34 million tons per annum, just one of the many elements the Philippines biomass project is capable of producing. All without cutting down a single tree. Vast amount of Fertilizer, a residue produced during process.
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5moA professor from Cambridge university UK and a world renowned marketer in manila are aware of the process. No government support at all
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5mo42 million tons per annum of biomass available in the Philippines but unused.
Zelfstandig/ vrijwillig Coach-Toekomstdenker in de Transitie naar een Fossielvrije, Circulaire, Bio-based Economie
5moI fully agree in the shortterm (upto ~ 2050) to acceleratie renewable bio-energy (power!!) production and hurry to build BECCUS for negative CO2 emission. This is a very important transition development of a bio-feedstock commodity market for the long-term bio-based make industry, which will still require a somewhat longer technology development period. If we shoot for the intended timing of 100% fossil/nucleair free renewable power with a mix of solar/wind/hydro/battery/H2-fuel cell balancing for CO2 neutral electrification of our society we can phase-out bio-energy en use all the developed commodities of bio-feedstocks (with biogene carbon and hydrogen) for the mature biobased make industrie around the year 2050. Consequently we will only require to import the lowest price synthetische hydrogen from a selection of competitive sub-tropical countries for balancing of our offshore HVDC powergrid for large consumers and large industry clusters. The urban living area's with the integral middle/small businesses will be highly electrified and in majority decentralised energy selfsufficient with solar power, energy storage/balancing wit batteries (+BEV's), H2 and reversible fuel cells. (The latter technology still totally ignored)