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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]

• 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:
    • 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

News

2010

• World Bank, European governments finance illegal timber exports from Madagascar, 11 January 2010 by WildMadagascar.org: "...France, Holland, Morocco, and the World Bank have all been implicated in financing illegal logging operations in Madagascar's national parks over the past year. Even as foreign governments condemned the surge in illegal logging last year, many--either directly or through institutions they support--are shareholders in the very banks that have financed the export of illegal lumber".
  • "With so much capital tied up in existing stock, timber traders have come to rely on banks to finance their exports and their ongoing logging operations." [3]

References

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

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