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Sustainability of Renewables
Location and date(s) of workshop:	IEA, Paris: 2 April 2008
Organiser(s):	53rd Meeting of the Renewable Energy Working Party Technology and Policy Seminar
Contact(s):	renewables@iea.org
Background:	According to IEA scenarios, renewables will play a major role in the needed transition towards a more sustainable future world energy system. How can the sustainability benefits of renewables be assessed and quantified? Are there any sustainability issues related to the mass-scale deployment of renewables? The workshop aims to provide transparent, balanced and evidence-based answers to these questions, with perspectives from research, industry and policy-making stakeholders. The second session of the workshop will be dedicated to a case study on bioenergy and biofuels, for which the current initiatives on sustainability criteria and the related policy implications will be presented and discussed.
Links to relevant documents:	Agenda
Proceedings:	SESSION I Chairperson: Mr Roberto Vigotti, REWP Chairman Session 1 Summary (to be posted) Life Cycle Inventories of Present and Future Energy Technologies - Results of EU-Project NEEDS Mr Rolf Frischknecht, ESU-Services, Switzerland From Life Cycle Emissions to External Costs - Consensus Areas and Open Issues Mr Wolfram Krewitt, German Aerospace Centre, Germany Lifecycle Assessment of Electricity Generation in terms of CO2 Emissions: An LCA of Electric Power in Japan Mr Kazuhiko Yamada, IEA Hydropower Implementing Agreement U.S. Views on Renewable Fuels and Sustainability Amb. Reno Harnish, Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, US Department of State SESSION 2 Chairperson: Mr Paolo Frankl, Head of the IEA Renewable Energy Unit Session 2 Summary (to be posted) Sustainability Issues in Bioenergy Mr Kees Kwant, IEA Bioenergy Implementing Agreement GHG Accounting Methodology & Default Data according to the German Biomass Sustainability Ordinance Mr Horst Fehrenbach, IFEU, Germany Sustainability of Biofuels for Transport - A Research Perspective Mr Jean-Francois Dallemand, Joint Research Centre of the EC, Italy Sustainability of Biofuels - An Industry Perspective Mr Ignacio Gavilan, BP Biofuels, United Kingdom Sustainability of Biofuels - A Leading Producing Country’s Perspective Ms Géraldine Kutas, UNICA, Brazil UNEP’s Approach to Bioenergy Ms Martina Otto, United Nations Environment Programme, France