Bioeconomy Working Group
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This page is for the use of the US "Bioeconomy Working Group," an ad hoc consortium of US NGOs active on issues related to the expansion of the "bioeconomy" -- bioenergy and bioproducts -- in the United States.
Participants: Please note that these pages are viewable by the general public so don't post any confidential or sensitive information.
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Statements of principles
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NWF
- Selected Issues to be Addressed in Future Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Biofuels (.doc) - this document is being revised and is temporarily unavailable
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Biofuel policy
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Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC)
- WORC Biofuels Sustainability Criteria (PDF file)
- WORC Developing Biofuels: Congressional Recommendations (PDF file)
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Conservation Security Program (CSP) proposals
- Promoting Sustainable Cellulosic Bioenergy Crops With the Conservation Security Program - Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and Minnesota Project
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Farm Bill proposals
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Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
- Growing Conservation in the Farm Bill - Recommendations Of The Agriculture And Wildlife Working Group.
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NWF Biofuels Innovation Program
- Biofuels Innovation Program Proposal (pdf file download)
- Biofuels Innovation Program Summary (.doc file download)
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IATP Sustainable Biomass Reserve
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Renewable Fuels Standard proposals
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State bills
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California
- Executive Order S-01-07: establishes a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS)
- Executive Order S-06-06: establishes "targets for the use and production of biomass products," including "for California to produce a minimum of twenty percent of its own biofuels by 2010 and forty percent by 2020." (Reference: Western Milling Press Release)
- AB32: the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Regulates emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Minnesota
- Bill HF0589
- the Minnesota bill that has been introduced to create investor incentives for cellulosic ethanol plants, and farmer incentives to grow cellulosic feedstocks sustainably.
- HF0589 Status in House for Legislative Session 85
- Text of HF0589
- Biofuels Factsheet for Clean Energy Minnesota
- HF 589-SF 480 Primer: Next-Generation Biofuels
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Background Information
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Sustainability Standards Processes
Please go here to see more information on standards processes in the EU and elsewhere.
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Standards documents
These are links to publications produced by different sustainability standards processes.
- Overview of recent developments in sustainable biomass certification (draft)(pdf) by Jinke van Dam, Martin Junginger, André Faaij, Ingmar Jürgens, Gustavo Best, Uwe Fritsche; IEA Bioenergy Task 40, December 2006.
- Feasibility Study on certification for a Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation by E4Tech, ECCM, and Imperial College London, June 2005. This study addresses whether and how greenhouse gas and environmental and social standards should be linked to a Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.
- Draft Environmental Standards for Biofuels (pdf) by The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management, IIED, ADAS, Imperial College; LowCVP, 18 July 2006.
- Sustainability Standards for Bioenergy by Uwe R. Fritsche, Katja Hünecke, Andreas Hermann, Falk Schulze, Kirsten Wiegmann with contributions from Michel Adolphe;WWF Germany, Öko-Institut, November 2006.
- Criteria for Sustainable Biomass Production - Final report of the Project group Sustainable production of biomass,Interdepartmental Programme Management Energy Transition, Netherlands, 14 July 2006.
- The impact of sustainability criteria on the costs and potentials of bioenergy production (pdf) by Edward Smeets, André Faaij and Iris Lewandowski; Copernicus Institute, part of the FAIR Biotrade project funded by the Dutch electricity company Essent N.V. and NOVEM (Netherlands Organisation for Energy and the Environment), May 2005.
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Publications
This section provides links to other publications that are relevant or have been referenced by other members of the group.
- Understanding and Informing the Policy Environment: State-Level Renewable Fuels Standards by E. Brown, K. Cory, and D. Arent; NREL, January 2007.
- Economic and Agricultural Impacts of Ethanol and Biodiesel Expansion (pdf) by Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Burton English, Kim Jensen, Chad Hellwinckel, Jamey Menard, and Brad Wilson; University of Tennessee, funded in part by the Governors' Ethanol Coalition and the National Commission on Energy Policy, December 2006. This is the University of Tennessee study of land requirements for 60 billion gallons of biofuels.
- Biomass as feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply (pdf) - A joint study by USDA and USDOE, April 2005.
- Staying Home: How Ethanol will Change U.S. Corn Exports (PDF) - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, December 2006.
- Beyond the RFS: : The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Increased Grain Ethanol Production in the U.S. by Liz Marshall and Suzie Greenhalgh; World Resources Institute, September 2006.
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Brazil
- Sustainability of Brazilian Bioethanol (PDF) by Edward Smeets, Martin Junginger, André Faaij (Utrecht University); Arnaldo Walter, Paulo Dolzan (State University of Campinas); commissioned by SenterNovem, The Netherlands Agency for Sustainable Development and Innovation, August 2006.
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NRDC
- GROWING ENERGY: How Biofuels Can Help End America’s Oil Dependence (pdf) by Nathanael Greene (principal author); National Resources Defence Council, December 2004.
- Bringing Biofuels to the Pump by Nathanael Greene and Yerina Mugica; NRDC, July 2005.
- Unlocking the Promise of Ethanol - NRDC, February 2006.
- Ethanol: Energy Well Spent - A Survey of Studies Published Since 1990 - NRDC and Climate Solutions, February 2006.
- All that Glitters Is Not Gold: How to Get Real Benefits from Biofuels by Nathanael Greene, from Ethanol Today, October 2006.
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News
This section puts links to articles that have been circulated.
- Midwestern Weed May Inspire Newfound Respect 1 November 2006 from USDA. Pennycress, a winter weed, could be used for biodiesel production. Treating the former weed as a crop would reduce the need for herbicides and increase production of organic fertilizer.
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