This document summarizes a presentation on sustainability assessment of bioenergy production. It discusses developing a set of tailored sustainability indicators to measure environmental, social, and economic impacts. These indicators will be measured through a purpose-built calculator. The presentation also identifies potential environmental, social, and techno-economic barriers to market uptake of bioenergy in case study sites, such as impacts to air/water quality, land tenure issues, and lack of access to credit or profitable markets.

1. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF
BIOENERGY PRODUCTION IN THE
CONTEXT OF FORBIO
FORBIO Project Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine
Marco Colangeli (FAO)
20 September 2017

2. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
Sustainability Assessment:
• Harmonized Data collection campaign (Data entry sheets + literature)

3. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
Sustainability Assessment:
• Harmonized Data collection campaign (Data entry sheets + literature)
• Development of tailored set of Sustainability Indicators
FORBIO BIOENERGY SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC
Life-cycle GHG Land Tenure Productivity
Soil Quality Change in Income Net Energy Balance
Non GHGs Jobs in Bioenergy Sectors Gross Value Added
Water Use and Efficiency Modern Energy Access Trainings
Water Quality Infrastructures and logistics for
bioenergy distribution
Biodiversity
Land Use Change Capacity and flexibility of use of
bioenergy

4. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
Sustainability Assessment:
• Harmonized Data collection campaign (Data entry sheets + literature)
• Development of tailored set of Sustainability Indicators
• Indicators measurement through purpose built calculator

5. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
Sustainability Assessment:
• Harmonized Data collection campaign (Data entry sheets + literature)
• Development of tailored set of Sustainability Indicators
• Indicators measurement through purpose built calculator
• Further discussions with local stakeholders

6. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
Multistakeholder discussion on
barriers to the market uptake of
bioenergy in the case study sites

7. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
• Air quality (pollutants and GHG considerations)
• Soil quality (soil properties, soil contaminants and pollutants, etc.)
• Water quality (leaching of chemicals, both pollutants and
contaminants, fertilizers and pesticides into aquifers, ground and
surface waters)
• Water availability/stress (irrigation facilities, needs, stresses and
competition)
• Species Invasiveness and biodiversity (bioenergy feedstocks’
invasiveness and control measures, biodiversity status and
perspectives in the study area, etc.)
• Landscape (restrictions and limitations to changes of original
patterns)
1. Environmental barriers

8. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
• Land tenure (land ownership in the study area: is land owned by the
farmers, municipalities, region, etc.)
• Employment in agriculture (what is the average age of farmers, their
wage, what are market trends in agriculture in the specific area, etc.)
• Income generation
• Health conditions and implications; health safety
• Novelty acceptance and stakeholder’s buy-in and ownership,
confidence level (new value chains)
• Financial Security (long term vs short term contracts)
2. Social barriers

9. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
• Profitability (market conditions for biomass production, avg costs &
revenue analyses, etc.)
• Access to credit (loans, microloans, equity, other forms of financing
for this kind of value chains)
• Incentives (tax breaks, tariffs, etc.)
• Capacity development (human and institutional)
• Agronomic needs (materials, inputs, techniques, equipment,
training)
• Access to market (EU? Domestic?)
3. Techno-economic barriers

10. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No691846.
DjakujuMarco Colangeli
Programme Adviser
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Climate and Environment Division (NRC)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome – ITALY
Tel: +39.06.0754760
E-Mail: marco.colangeli@fao.org
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