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The RSB has released "Version 2.0" of the "Principles on Sustainable Biofuel Production"
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The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels will undertake a series of outreach events in the Americas (North and South America) in early 2009 to engage stakeholders in discussions about the principles and standards for sustainable biofuels.

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For more information contact Matt Rudolf: Americas Coordinator; e-mail:matthew.rudolf"at"epfl.ch

Events

Events in the United States

Note: The following text is reprinted with permission of the RSB secretariat:

RSB Stakeholder Meetings in the United States

We are very excited to announce that the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels will hold the first in a series of public consultations to receive public comment on Version Zero of the draft Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Biofuels. The first meeting will be held January 28, 2009 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the second meeting will be held February 4, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Additional meetings are planned to take place in Iowa and Washington DC in March.

Meeting locations and dates:

Stakeholder meeting in the Caribbean

Stakeholder meeting in Latin America

Background information

In August 2008, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) released the first draft of a unique Standard for sustainable biofuel production. This document – called “Version Zero”- is the result of an impressive work achieved by several hundreds of participants from 40 countries and all sectors, which have joined the RSB since April 2007, in order to debate and reach a consensus on a set of generic principles and criteria to be followed by biofuel producers in order for their production to remain genuinely sustainable.

This ‘Version Zero’ includes 12 principles and criteria, which cover the environmental, social and economic issues related to biofuels, as revealed over the last years until now. Yet, this draft needs to be further improved and refined; the RSB has now entered into a period of public comment, and is organizing regional consultations throughout the world from January to March 2009 in order for all stakeholders to participate and share their valuable opinions. Are there aspects missing from the document? Is the phrasing correct? What is needed to correctly implement these principles and criteria? These are examples of questions that regional consultations will help the RSB to solve.

The meeting will begin with presentations by experts on biofuels sustainability issues in the southeastern United States, followed by an examination of Version Zero, and ending with a site visit at a local biodiesel plant.

Should you be interested in participating, please save the date and let us know by returning the attached RSVP form by FAX or email at your earliest convenience.

It is important that you be familiar with Version Zero prior to the meeting. Version Zero can be downloaded here:

http://cgse.epfl.ch/page70341.html

We look forward to meeting you in Raleigh and San Francisco!

The RSB team

http://energycenter.epfl.ch/biofuels

News

  • Roundtable seeks international sustainability input, 13 January 2009 by Biodiesel Magazine. The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels will be holding RSB outreach in the Americas meetings in order to gain input on last fall's Version Zero of the RSB’s principles and criteria for sustainability.
    • "The first meeting in the Southeast is scheduled for Jan. 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Southern Growth Policies Board in Durham, N.C.; a second meeting will follow the National Biodiesel Conference on Feb. 4 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. A meeting in Iowa is being planned for the first week of March and one in Washington, D.C., is being planned for later in March, according to the RSB Americas Coordinator Matt Rudolf."
    • "The RSB is proposing a voluntary system to certify sustainable biofuel production. An implementation working group has already begun working on certification plans for the standards, which are expected to be adopted in June." [1]


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