Bioenergy and Biorefinery – Sustainability
- Positive global energy demand trends are expected to support significant industry growth.
- Rapid urbanization in developing countries is likely to drive an increase in demand, outpacing GDP growth rates.
- Renewable Energy, Biofuels, and Bio-Products are expected to become increasingly important in the global economy, creating genuine and sustainable business opportunities:
- Environmental concerns regarding carbon emissions, combined with high and volatile oil prices have heightened the importance of a diversified energy and products mix;
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. Fresh Water; Food; Ecology and Biodiversity; Marine life and Fisheries;
- UNFCCC (United Nations Fremework Convention on Climate Change Dec./2015): Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet:
- Emphasizing serious concern about the pressing need to address the substantial gap between the collective impact of their mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and the aggregate emission pathways that are consistent with limiting the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and making efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels;
- Recognizing the urgent need to strengthen the provision of financial, technological, and capacity-building support by developed country Parties in a predictable manner, in order to enable developing country Parties to take enhanced action prior to 2020;
- Emphasizing the enduring benefits of taking ambitious and early action, including significant reductions in the cost of future mitigation and adaptation efforts;
- Acknowledging the need to promote universal access to sustainable energy in developing countries, particularly in Africa, through the enhanced deployment of renewable energy;
- Agreeing to uphold and promote regional and international cooperation in order to mobilize stronger and more ambitious climate action from all parties, as well as from non-party stakeholders such as civil society, the private sector, financial institutions, cities, subnational authorities, local communities, and indigenous peoples.