25 x 25 Alliance
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The 25x'25 Alliance is a coalition of organizations in the United States advocating that 25% of U.S. energy needs be met through renewable energy by the year 2025.
- "25x'25 Vision: By 2025, America's farms, forests and ranches will provide 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States, while continuing to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed and fiber."[1]
Resources
Events
- 29 June - 1 July 2010, Arlington, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area) USA: The Sixth National 25x'25 Summit. (Themes: 25 x 25 Alliance, agriculture, biomass, forestry, national security, policy, sustainability)
- 31 March-2 April 2009, Arlington, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.), USA: 5th National 25x'25 Renewable Energy Summit. (Themes: 25 x 25 Alliance, renewable energy, United States)
- 11-13 March 2008, Omaha, Nebraska, United States: 4th National 25x'25 Renewable Energy Summit - "Bringing the Vision to Life: Win-Win Solutions for America's Energy Future" (Themes: renewable energy, 25x'25 campaign)
News
- Nation's Forests Can Meet Demands for Energy, Bioproducts and Traditional Uses, 12 March 2010 blog post by 25x’25: "25x’25 has created a Wood-to-Energy Work Group that is bringing together major forestry, conservation and industry stakeholders in a series of roundtable discussions around current and future uses of wood. The goal of these discussions is the development of consensus recommendations on how best to increase and expand the role and contribution of the nation’s private and public forest lands to national energy needs while continuing to provide wood for traditional uses."
- "[A] significant finding was that without major change in public land management policy, public lands will likely not contribute in any significant way as a source of supply for traditional wood product or biomass for energy. This shortfall in supply potential is particularly unfortunate given the potential gains in forest health, fire reduction and productivity on the public lands and the economic benefits to rural communities that could result from the wider use of their resources."
- "[T]he participants agreed that if woody biomass is to contribute more to the nation’s energy future while also supplying all traditional uses, there must be more investment and expansion of short rotation woody crop production on marginal crop and pasture lands, including the use of genetically improved trees."[2]
- Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need, 4 February 2010 blog post by 25 x 25 Alliance: "The final rule adopted by EPA this week to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) set in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act correctly recognizes that high-efficiency, first-generation ethanol can, and will continue to, contribute to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions."
- "The agency and Administrator Lisa Jackson, a member of the working group, wisely broadened the scope of the research to cover wider spectrum of countries impacted by ILUC (from 40 to 160) and took into account more recent crop yield and land productivity numbers."
- "The latest research also saw an improvement in numbers for soy biodiesel, which now will be able to qualify for the advanced RFS subcategory, biomass-based diesel." [3]
- 25x'25 Issues Sustainability Principles to Guide Evolution of Renewable Energy Future, 12 March 2008 Press Release by the 25x'25 Alliance: "Principles that will assure a sustainable 25x'25 renewable energy future were released today during the 4th National 25x'25 Summit in Omaha, Nebraska.
- "This new set of guiding, environmental principles cover air quality, biodiversity, biotechnology, efficiency and conservation, greenhouse gas emission, invasive species, private and public lands, soil erosion and quality, water quality and quantity and wildlife. The principles also set economic and social guidelines for access to infrastructure, incentives and market development, access and distribution."
- Download the 25x’25 Sustainability Principles (PDF file)
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