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WP 5 Sustainability Tasks 5.2 and 5.3 Task leader: Oeko-Institut

WP 5 Sustainability Tasks 5.2 and 5.3 Task leader: Oeko-Institut. Crops2Industry “Non-food Crops-to-Industry schemes in EU27”. Content. Objectives Progress of work Some first results Problems to be solved Next steps. 1. Objectives. Assess selected production and environmental impacts

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WP 5 Sustainability Tasks 5.2 and 5.3 Task leader: Oeko-Institut

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  1. WP 5 SustainabilityTasks 5.2 and 5.3Task leader: Oeko-Institut Crops2Industry “Non-food Crops-to-Industry schemes in EU27”

  2. Content • Objectives • Progress of work • Some first results • Problems to be solved • Next steps

  3. 1. Objectives • Assess selected production and environmental impacts • Identify ‘core’ list of standards and criteria for environmental and socio-economic sustainability of • selected non-food crops-to-industrial-products systems • in a global and country-specific perspective

  4. 2. Progress of work • Related activities of Oeko-Institut • German BMU/UBA “bio global” study (iLUC, land use, biodiversity) • IEE Project “Biomass Futures” (WP 4 – Sustainability) • CEN sustainability standards for bioenergy TC 383 + ISO PC • European Biofuels Technology Platform WG 4 (Sustainability) • IEA Bioenergy Task 40 "Sustainable Bioenergy Trade" • Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) • Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Task Force • UNEP-FAO-UNIDO Targeted Research for GEF • Activities will feed into WP Tasks 5.2 + 5.3 • Work of BOKU (Task 5.1): consider linking criteria to spatial disaggregation

  5. 3. Some first results • “Critical” environmental issues • direct and indirect land use change (LUC) and its impacts on GHG balances, and biodiversity: non-food crops grown on arable could lead to ILUC… • agrobiodiversity: possibly positive (scale-dependent) • “Critical” social issues • food security impacts: depend on arable land use • employment: data needed for 4F crops, but positive!!! • Key research issues • spatially disaggregation (using Environmental Zones based on EEA work 2005-2007 on biomass potentials) • long-term: role of genetically modified organisms (GMO)

  6. ..on ILUC • IndirectLUC: allincrementalbiomass crops(electricity, heat, transport, materials, food, feed, fiber) • Options to reduce ILUC risk: • Use “degraded“ land  higher costs, incentives needed + biodiversity/social safeguards • Use land „freed“ from yield increase (how to measure?); possibly: convert hi-intense grassland? • Long-term: strengthen global conventions to “cap“ iLUC effects on GHG + biodiversity  only real solution!

  7. Biomass: Cascading! Priority: Material use first! Biomass crops Residues/wastes End of “cascade“: Energy Use

  8. Problems to be solved • no problems, but opportunities: • life-cycle data on some plants (“specialty products”, e.g. pharmaceuticals/medicinal) not available, estimates could be done  need to clarify list of cropping systems • data on direct employment from 4F crop cultivation and conversion • spatial distribution of future production areas not yet available ( BOKU)

  9. Next steps • Collaboration with BOKU on disaggregation: meeting in DA or Vienna in Jan/Feb needed! • Follow ILUC discussion (EU, US…), discuss possible use of hi-intense grassland for 4F cropping (next project meeting) • consider new German BMU/UBA project on sustainable biomaterials and BfN project on biodiversity (more info next project meeting) • Include outcome of other activities (GBEP, RSB, GEF), prepare paper on status and “core list“

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