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Optimizing Pathways and Market Systems for Enhanced Competitiveness of Sustainable Bio-Energy

BIOTEAM project helps stakeholders understand the bioenergy market, assess bio-energy pathways, and shape policy recommendations for sustainability. Harmonized framework, sustainability assessments, market system assessments, and strategic policy recommendations are expected outcomes.

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Optimizing Pathways and Market Systems for Enhanced Competitiveness of Sustainable Bio-Energy

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  1. Optimizing Pathways and Market Systems for Enhanced Competitiveness of Sustainable Bio-Energy BIOTEAM Contractnumber: IEE/12/842 Project duration: 36 months, 01/04/2013-31/03/2016 26/09/2013

  2. BIOTEAM: Helpingpublic and private stakeholdersgainbetterinsight on how the bioenergy market works and how private business decision and EU and nationalpolicy instrumentsaffect bioenergy pathwaycompetitiveness and sustainability. Project summary • RESULTS • harmonized framework for assessing bio-energy pathways; • detailed sustainability impact assessment of a set of prioritised bio-energy pathways; • 6 national market system assessments; • comprehensive assessment of bio-energy policy interactions, and set of strategic policy recommendations on how to shape policy instrument. BIOTEAM partners

  3. Bioenergy is a complex business with many potential resources and final uses. It is usually difficult for policy makers and market actors to fully understand, within this complex market environment, the economic, social and environmental implications of their strategic bioenergy pathway decisions. Background • The BIOTEAM project aims to: • assess the impact that market forces and policy instruments have on the sustainable use of biomass resources; • achieve a new balance with social and environmental aspects/interests, so as to optimize the sustainability performance of biomass usage systems, with a primary focus on biomass-to-energy pathways. • Market systemsand policy framework influence the strategic and operational behaviour of actors active in the biomass markets and also the social and environmental performance of biomass-usage pathways. • Many market systems have a tendency to operate predominantly in a mode of economic optimization.

  4. Buildanharmonizedframeworkforassessingbio-energypathways. Sustainability impact assessmentofprioritisedbio-energy pathways for each country involved. Assess the impact of policy instrument on the sustainableuseofbiomass BIOTEAM key activities Objectives and mainsteps Market mapping tool to assess the impact of day-to-day competitive (or distorted) market forces on the behaviour and actions of bio-energy pathway stakeholders Multi-criteria assessment (MCA) that aims to strike a balance between the social, economic and environmental impacts. The weighting will be performed in a participatory setting with stakeholders • Assess the sustainability of a number of bio-energy pathways • Check the relevance of alternative (non-energy) use pathways for the biomass-to-energy pathways • Contribute to the advancement in the knowledge and understanding of public and private stakeholders about the unknown impacts of policy frameworks and market system dynamics • Propose - in collaboration with public and private stakeholders – a series of actions that promote the sustainable use of scarce biomass resources, with a balance between economic, social and environmental impacts

  5. Main BIOTEAM reports: • Harmonized bioenergy pathway sustainability assessment framework • Comparative analysis of common policy instruments • Market system assessment reports • Strategic bioenergy decisions using micro-economic optimization tool and a sustainability optimization assessment with stakeholders Expectedimpacts Direct impact Public and private sectorstakeholders in the sixinvolved EU countriesrevise or at leastconsider a revisionoftheirdecision (e.g. bioenergy policy incentives, choiceofbiomassfeedstock, investmentsizeof bioenergy production plants) towards more sustainablepathways on the basisof the insightsdevelopedby BIOTEAM.

  6. BIOTEAM consortium Partners & Contacts Coordinator Mr. EiseSpijkerStitching Joint Implementation Network NetherlandsE-mail: jin@jiqweb.orgTel: +31(0)50-5248430/1 Website www.sustainable-biomass.eu

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