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2012 January 20

Global Verification Scheme for Sustainable Biomass for Energy

A new document developed by the World Bioenergy Association is now available on our website.
The purpose of the World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is to promote the increasing utilization of bioenergy globally in an efficient, sustainable, economically and environmentally appropriate way.
Rules for guiding stakeholders to establish an acceptable management for collecting biomass for energy are necessary. That is why WBA presented a collection of sustainability criteria globally at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico in December 2010. 

Now WBA introduces the next step in the process:

The SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS VERIFICATION SCHEME. Read more about it here.