c r o p s t o i n d u s t r y wp 5 sustainability tasks 5.2 and 5.3 task leader: oeko-institut...
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C R O P S T O I N D U S T R YC R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y
WP 5 SustainabilityTasks 5.2 and 5.3
Task leader: Oeko-Institut
Crops2IndustryCrops2Industry“Non-food Crops-to-Industry
schemes in EU27”
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Content
1. Objectives2. Progress of work3. Some first results4. Problems to be solved 5. Next steps
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1. Objectives
• Assess selected production and environmental impacts
• Identify ‘core’ list of standards and criteria for environmental and socio-economic sustainability of
– selected non-food crops-to-industrial-products systems
– in a global and country-specific perspective
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2. Progress of work
• Related activities of Oeko-Institut– German BMU/UBA “bio global” study (iLUC, land use, biodiversity)– IEE Project “Biomass Futures” (WP 4 – Sustainability)– CEN sustainability standards for bioenergy TC 383 + ISO PC– European Biofuels Technology Platform WG 4 (Sustainability)– IEA Bioenergy Task 40 "Sustainable Bioenergy Trade"– Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB)– Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Task Force– UNEP-FAO-UNIDO Targeted Research for GEF
• Activities will feed into WP Tasks 5.2 + 5.3 • Work of BOKU (Task 5.1): consider linking criteria to spatial disaggregation
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3. Some first results
• “Critical” environmental issues– direct and indirect land use change (LUC) and its
impacts on GHG balances, and biodiversity: non-food crops grown on arable could lead to ILUC…
– agrobiodiversity: possibly positive (scale-dependent)• “Critical” social issues
– food security impacts: depend on arable land use– employment: data needed for 4F crops, but positive!!!
• Key research issues– spatially disaggregation (using Environmental Zones
based on EEA work 2005-2007 on biomass potentials) – long-term: role of genetically modified organisms (GMO)
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..on ILUC
• Indirect LUC: all incremental biomass crops (electricity, heat, transport, materials, food, feed, fiber)
• Options to reduce ILUC risk:
– Use “degraded“ land higher costs, incentives needed + biodiversity/social safeguards
– Use land „freed“ from yield increase (how to measure?); possibly: convert hi-intense grassland?
• Long-term: strengthen global conventions to “cap“ iLUC effects on GHG + biodiversity only real solution!
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Biomass crops
Residues/wastes
Priority: Material use first!
End of “cascade“: Energy Use
Biomass: Cascading!
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Problems to be solved
• no problems, but opportunities:
– life-cycle data on some plants (“specialty products”, e.g. pharmaceuticals/medicinal) not available, estimates could be done need to clarify list of cropping systems
– data on direct employment from 4F crop cultivation and conversion
– spatial distribution of future production areas not yet available ( BOKU)
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Next steps
•Collaboration with BOKU on disaggregation: meeting in DA or Vienna in Jan/Feb needed!
• Follow ILUC discussion (EU, US…), discuss possible use of hi-intense grassland for 4F cropping (next project meeting)
• consider new German BMU/UBA project on sustainable biomaterials and BfN project on biodiversity (more info next project meeting)
• Include outcome of other activities (GBEP, RSB, GEF), prepare paper on status and “core list“