Dear Partners and Observers, We are very pleased to highlight events organized by GBEP or in collaboration with other relevant initiatives/organizations, occurring during the year, for your consideration and expression of interest to join. Please see the table below for full list and dates. We would especially like to draw your attention on two upcoming webinars to be held under the Activity Group 7 on Biogas. These e-learning webinars will present and explain ‘BiogasDoneRight(r)’, a model for agricultural biogas based on the use of feedstocks that do not compete with food or fodder crops. The English webinar will be presented by Professor Bruce Dale of Michigan State University, 14.00-15.15 CEST time, Monday 15 April, and the Spanish version of the webinar will be presented by Jorge Hilbert of the National Agricultural Technology Institute of Argentina (INTA), 16.00-17.15 CEST time, 16 April 2019. The links for accessing the webinars in Adobe Connect can be found in the table below by clicking on the hyperlinks. The webinars are open to all so please feel free to share these links widely in your networks. We hope that many of you will be able to join us. Please confirm your participation - specifying if it is related to the English or to the Spanish webinar - by 10 April 2019. Event Date Location AG7 Biogas - GBEP e-learning webinar on BiogasDoneRight(r) in English Monday, 15 April 2019 14:00-15:15 CEST (12.00 - 13.15 UTC) WEBINAR via Adobe Connect http://fao.adobeconnect.com/biogasdonerighten/ AG7 Biogas - GBEP e-learning webinar on BiogasDoneRight(r) in Spanish Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16.00 - 17.15 CEST (14:00-15:15 UTC) WEBINAR via Adobe Connect http://fao.adobeconnect.com/biogasdonerightes/ Workshop (organized by IEA Bioenergy in collaboration with GBEP) - “Governing sustainability in biomass supply chains for the bioeconomy” Thursday, 23 May 2019 08:45-18:00 CEST Utrecht (Netherlands) Draft agenda attached Side event at EUBCE (hosted by IEA Bioenergy, GBEP and GIZ in collaboration with IRENA and ETA Florence) - “2nd Dialogue on contribution of a sustainable wood energy production approach to Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA): Focus on Africa‐EU collaboration” Thursday, 28 May 2019 09:00-13:00 CEST Lisbon (Portugal) Draft agenda available here<http://www.globalbioenergy.org/events1/gbep-events-2019/working-group-on-capacity-building/en/> GBEP Side event at EUBCE - “Tracking Sustainable Bioenergy Development: focus on Africa" Tuesday, 28 May 2019 13:30-16:00 CEST Lisbon (Portugal) Draft agenda available here<http://www.globalbioenergy.org/events1/gbep-events-2019/other-events/en/> National training workshop - “Enhancing bioenergy sustainability through the use of the GBEP sustainability indicators” 24 June 2019 Manila (Philippines) AG3 - 7th GBEP Bioenergy Week 25-27 June 2019 Manila (Philippines) Draft agenda available here<http://www.globalbioenergy.org/events1/gbep-events-2019/working-group-on-capacity-building/en/> GBEP Annual meetings: * 17th Task Force on Sustainability * 11th Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy * 22nd Steering Committee 28-31 October 2019 Rome (Italy) If you would like further information on any of these events, please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind regards, GBEP Secretariat ************************************* GBEP Secretariat Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Climate and Environment Division Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 - Rome, ITALY Tel.: +39.06.57052834 Fax: +39.06.57053250 GBEP email address: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> GBEP website: www.globalbioenergy.org<http://www.globalbioenergy.org/> Executive Secretary: Dr. Maria Michela Morese; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Programme Advisor: Ms Constance Miller; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Administrative Assistant: Ms Giulia Micheli; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GBEP-Partners-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(GBEP-Partners-L,SIGNOFF);