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Setting an international standard for sustainable bioenergy
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Setting an international standard for sustainable bioenergy

Deborah D O'Connell, Heather H Bone, Annette Cowie and Mark W Brown
2013 Bioenergy Australia Conference Final Program and Abstract Book, p.117
Bioenergy Australia Conference: Building the future: Biomass for the Environment, Economy and Society, 2013 (Hunter Valley, Australia, 25-Nov-2013–27-Nov-2013)
2013
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Chemical Engineering Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Interdisciplinary Engineering international standard sustainable bioenergy
The International Standards Organisation (ISO, Project Committee (PC) 248) is currently in the process of developing a standard for Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy (ISO13065). A key feature of ISO 13065is that it will focus on standardising data collection and reporting, and will not assess or evaluate the sustainability (or otherwise) of any given economic operator or their product. The intention is that the standard will provide a common set of criteria and indicators (C&I) to facilitate comparison between different bioenergy production processes. There are no thresholds or evaluation methods included. It will ensure that a minimum set of data is reported in a standard fashion, to facilitate a purchasing party or regulator to make their own decisions about whether it achieves their sustainability requirements. We will provide a summary of the scope and approach applied to identification of suitable C&I. This talk will provide feedback from the most recent meeting, the fifth plenary and joint working group session held for PC248 in Stockholm in October 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to consider comments submitted on the recent Committee Draft 2 of the proposed standard which received a 'no' vote to proceed to the next stage. The ISO process was proposed as a New Work Item in 2007, but due to the complexity of the topic as well as the differing agendas and interests of participating countries, progress has been slow and there is a risk that consensus may not be reached. Therefore, we will discuss the potential ways forward that have been proposed by the ISO.

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