Dear Partners and Observers,
We are very pleased to share with you the Rapid Implementation Framework for the GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy: Handbook, which has been finalized and is available on the
GBEP website. The Handbook has been prepared in the context of an FAO project, as a kind contribution to the GBEP Task Force on Sustainability Programme of Work.
The Handbook
The Handbook guides users through a description of priority bioenergy value chains and an
evidence-based prioritization of the GBEP indicators that are critical to their context. This allows users to obtain a
preliminary indication of likely impacts on sustainability from the most relevant bioenergy pathways in the country or region. It takes the format of a questionnaire aimed at defining the main features of the selected bioenergy pathways and the environmental
and socio-economic characteristics, and related vulnerabilities of the country/region.
The Handbook also provides information on safeguards and good practices to monitor for a preliminary indication of the sustainability of bioenergy value chains. These safeguards and good practices include not only those that can
implemented by operators along the supply chain to minimize risks and increase benefits in relation to social and economic sustainability, but also specific
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices that can improve the sustainability of biomass supply. The results of the process prepare the ground for a more thorough assessment of critical indicators, and can provide the basis for
focused policy recommendations.
Next steps
The Handbook should now be piloted in several different contexts in 2022
to test and refine the concept.
If you would like to be one of the first to pilot the Handbook, please contact
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Kind regards,
GBEP Secretariat
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GBEP Secretariat
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
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00153 - Rome, ITALY
Tel.: +39.06.57052834
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GBEP website: www.globalbioenergy.org
Executive Secretary: Dr. Maria Michela Morese;
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Programme Adviser: Ms Constance Miller;
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