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International organizations/Initiatives

• Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

• Global Village Energy Partnership - supports and helps set up energy action plans and assists energy SMEs in developing countries.

• Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)

• Interamerican Ethanol Commission - Co-chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Roberto Rodrigues, president of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of Brazil and Luis Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank.[1]

• IBEP: International Bioenergy Platform (interim website)

• International Biofuels Forum (IBF)

• International Energy Agency Bioenergy (IEA Bioenergy)
  • Task-27 Liquid Biofuels
  • Task-32 Biomass Combustion and Cofiring
  • Task 40: Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade

• International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) - "IRENA aims at becoming the main driving force in promoting a rapid transition towards the widespread and sustainable use of renewable energy on a global scale."[2]

• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • News:
    • For Gulf, Biofuels Are Worse Than Oil Spill , 17 June 2010 editorial by Investor's Business Daily: The OECD "recently stated in a report: 'When acidification, fertilizer use, biodiversity loss and toxicity of agricultural pesticides are taken into account, the overall impact of ethanol and biodiesel can very easily exceed those of petrol and mineral diesel.'"[3]

• REEEP: Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership

• REN21: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

• RSPO: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

• RTRS: Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association

• WBA: World Bioenergy Association

United Nations organizations

• UN Food and Agriculture Organization: Bioenergy (FAO: Bioenergy)

• UNECE/FAO Timber Section: Wood Energy

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) UNCTAD has a Biofuels initiative.
  • UNBI: Biofuels Initiative

Development banks / International financial institutions

Panel of experts debates the sustainability of bioenergy at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., 12 January 2010.

• African Development Bank (AfDB)

• Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

• World Bank
  • International Finance Corporation
  • News:
    • Palm oil lobby attacks World Bank's new social and environmental safeguards, 18 April 2011 by Mongabay.com: "Groups funded by the palm oil industry lashed out at the World Bank's new framework to resume lending to the palm oil sector."
      • "World Growth International and the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), groups that advocate on behalf of the industrial palm oil sector, blasted the World Bank for including social and environmental safeguards as guiding principles for lending to the palm oil sector. The World Bank said it would prioritize investments that 'support smallholders and foster benefit sharing with rural communities.'"[4]
    • Greens Warn World Bank Over Palm Oil Funding, 5 September 2010 by Jakarta Globe: "Environmental groups Greenpeace and Sawit Watch have called on the World Bank to extend its international suspension of financing for the palm oil sector unless producers meet environmental criteria."
      • "Since 1965, the World Bank has channeled nearly $2 billion for 45 projects in the palm oil sector in 12 nations across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia."[5]
    • World Bank Group publishes draft framework for sustainable palm oil, 27 July 2010 by Cosmetics Design: "The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have released a draft framework for engagement in the palm oil sector, in the hope of promoting positive change."
      • Download the consultation draft of the document, The World Bank Group’s Framework for Engagement in the Palm Oil Sector.
    • Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis, 4 July 2008 in The Guardian: "Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report".
  • Events
    • 12 January 2010, Washington, D.C., USA: World Bank InfoShop event, Bioenergy Development. (Themes: bioenergy, development, environment, land use, natural resource management, poverty)
      • In association with the launch of the book, Bioenergy Development: Issues and Impacts for Poverty and Natural Resource Management, by Elizabeth Cushion, Adrian Whiteman and Gerhard Dieterle.

International cooperation

Multilateral agreements

• International Biofuels Forum

• Core Agriculture Support Program - Is a part of the Strategic Framework for Subregional Cooperation in Agriculture for the Greater Mekong Subregion Program, which includes Cambodia, China, Lao, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The program works to increase cross-border trade and investment in agriculture. A major part will focus on ensuring "that the benefits from new opportunities opening up in agriculture through biofuel crops and the attendant new technologies, and the opening of borders among GMS nations will be spread out equitably."^[1]

• Kyoto Protocol
  • Clean Development Mechanism

Bilateral agreements

• US-Brazil ethanol partnership
• Brazil-Indonesia Consultative Committee on Biofuels

References

1. ↑ http://www.biofuelreview.com/content/view/904/ CASP agreement to benefit biofuel producers in Mekong

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