Dear Partners and Observers,
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Rome 27-29 November 2018 for the GBEP Annual Meetings. Please find attached the updated agenda. For those who have not yet confirmed their participation, we would kindly ask you to do
so at your earliest convenience.
The annual meetings are a chance for GBEP Partners and Observers to discuss the work that has been ongoing during the year and future plans. In light of this, the GBEP Secretariat is circulating the background documents in advance of the
meetings to allow adequate preparation time. They can be downloaded from the following
Dropbox folder. Please find below a full list of the background documents (those in
green are already present in the Dropbox, whilst the others will be added within the next week):
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Updated agenda for GBEP meetings 27-29 November 2018
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10th
meeting of the Working Group on Capacity Building (WGCB) – 27-28 November 2018
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Activity Group 3 – “Study tour for capacity building and training”
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Summary of 6th Bioenergy Week, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 16-18 October 2018
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Activity Group 7 – “Biogas”
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Stocktaking document – an annotated outline of the stocktaking document for the Activity Group, including the results from the SWOT analysis in Africa and preliminary findings from interviews conducted with experts in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
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Activity Group 8 – “Advanced Liquid Biofuels”
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Proposed Scope of Work
– the updated SoW (including inputs and revisions from Partners and Observers), to form the basis for discussion in Rome towards a confirmation of the establishment of the AG8.
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16th
meeting of the GBEP Task Force on Sustainability (TFS) – 28-29 November 2018
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Sub-group reports for the social, environmental and economic sub-groups – 2018 Reports for the Economic, Environmental and Social Sub-groups of the TFS, detailing work conducted on the guidance for the Implementation Guide for
discussion during the meeting of the TFS.
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Social sub-group report
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Economic sub-group report
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Environmental sub-group report
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Stepwise approach
– practical guidance on measurement of the GBEP Indicators, prepared for the Implementation Guide.
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“Flowchart” (Information flow and data consistency)
– practical guidance on measurement of the GBEP Indicators, prepared for the Implementation Guide.
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Proxies and Best Practices – background document and related references on the use of proxies for the implementation of the GBEP indicators, focusing on best practices, prepared for the Implementation Guide.
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Attribution Paper – technical paper on the attribution of the measurement of the indicators to bioenergy production and use.
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Non-paper on ‘Bioenergy in the context of the bioeconomy’
– a short note on bioenergy within the wider bioeconomy and the implications for sustainability, to be used as the basis for a discussion during the meetings on the role and opportunities for GBEP.
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21st meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee (SC) – 29 November 2018
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GBEP funding arrangements
If you have queries on any of the above documents, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
GBEP Secretariat
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