Task38 Expert Working Meeting at
Orangerie Schloß Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, November 16th –17th, 2012
Organized by
Task 38 – Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems
The workshop brought together researchers with expertise in quantifying the climate change mitigation value of bioenergy and reforestation, and experts on including time in LCA and carbon footprinting. Latest research on these topics were presented and discussed. 25 experts from all over the world participated.
In the second phase of the meeting the participants broke into two groups to discuss and prepare draft papers of two sub-themes related to timing of emissions from bioenergy in LCA and GHG accounting. These sub-themes are:
Papers are under development.
Welcome – Annette Cowie, Rural Climate Solutions, Australia, IEA Bioenergy Task38 Co-Task Leader
and Neil Bird, JOANNEUM Research, Austria, IEA Bioenergy Task38 Task Leader
Meeting objectives – Neil Bird, JOANNEUM Research, Austria
Presentation
Bioenergy carbon accounting: a literature review – Alessandro Agostini, EC, Joint Research Centre –
Institute for Energy and Transport, Petten, the Netherlands
Presentation
Dealing with time in LCA and carbon footprinting – current approaches, focus on bioenergy –
Annette Cowie, Rural Climate Solutions, Australia
Presenation
A summary of modeling requirements to assess the climate change impacts of bioenergy systems –
Annie Levasseur, CIRAIG, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Presentation
Risk charges, uncertainty and effect on dealing with time issues –
Eric Marland, Appalachian State University, Mathematical Sciences, USA
Presentation
Baseline time accounting: Considering global land use dynamics when estimating the climate impact of indirect land use change caused by biofuels –
Jesper Kloverpris, Novozymes A/S, Denmark
Time-dependence of bioenergy emission intensities and strategies to reduce pay-back times –
Neil Bird, JOANNEUM Research, Austria
Presentation
The time aspect of bioenergy – Climate impacts of bioenergy due to how fast combustion related emissions are compensated by uptake of atmospheric CO2 –
Lars Zetterberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Presentation
Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions by their Climate-Change Impact Potentials –
Miko Kirschbaum, Landcare Research, New Zealand
Presentation
Climate impacts of bioenergy: issues of scale –
Francesco Cherubini et al., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Presentation
Land use in life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions –
Tuomas Helin et al. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Presentation
Timing of Emission Reduction through Forest-based Bioenergy Substituting for Fossil Energy –
Josef Spitzer, IEA Bioenergy, Austria
Presentation
Tools for GHG Emissions Timing Characterization and Life Cycle Inventory Needs –
Alissa Kendall, University of California Davis, USA
Bioenergy in the Dutch energy system, now and in the future –
Jan Ros, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands
Presentation
