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This page lists past events in reverse chronological order.
- See also the list of upcoming events.
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2007
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March 2007
- 1-2 March 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA: 2007 Agricultural Outlook Forum: Agriculture at the Crossroads — Energy, Farm & Rural Policy
- 5 March 2007, Paris, France: Paris International Agricultural Fair: Sustainable palm oil production: research needs.
- 6-8 March 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States: Power-GEN. Power-GEN addresses the "wind, solar, biomass and fuels, hydro and geothermal sectors."[1]
- 6-9 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium: World Biofuels Markets Congress & Exhibition . A "high-level business-networking event that will focus on strategies to increase the uptake of biofuels worldwide."[2]
- 8 March 2007, Washington, D.C., USA. Bioenergy in the Farm Bill: Policy Options for Conservation by The Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
- 9 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium: Biogas Markets.
- 12-14 March 2007, Cartagena, Colombia: Biofuels Americas Conference & Expo III.
- 13-14 March 2007, Lansing, Michigan: The Michigan Agri-Energy Conference, 2007 (pdf).
- 13-15 March 2007, Boston, Massachusetts: the North East Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) Building Energy 07.
- 14 March 2007, Albany, New York: Biofuels in New York State. Contact: Ed@eba-nys.org.
- 16 March 2007, Washington, D.C., USA: Biofuels and Tortillas: A US-Mexican Tale of Chances and Challenges. 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, 210 Cannon House Office Building.
- 16-20 March 2007, Guatemala City, Guatemala: InterAmerican Development Bank Annual Meeting. Includes (17 March 2007) Sustainable Energy for Sustainable Development.
- 19-21 March 2007, New York, New York: Ethanol Finance & Investment Summit.
- 20-22 March 2007, Washington, D.C., United States: THE 3rd ANNUAL 25x'25 RENEWABLE ENERGY SUMMIT. The focus will be on the 25x'25 Implementation Plan of February 2007.
- POSTPONED until May - 21 March 2007, Washington, D.C., USA: Biofuels Go Coastal. 10:00-11:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn House Office Building
- 21-23 March 2007, Salzburg, Austria: Success and Visions for Bioenergy organized by ThermalNet- the new European Network for biomass pyrolysis, gasification and combustion.
- 21-24 March, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA: World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
- 26-28 March 2007, Washington, D.C., USA: Biomass and Biorefinery Deals 2007.
- 26-28 March 2007, Wageningen, The Netherlands: Expert Seminar on Jatropha Curcas - Agronomy and Genetics held at the Wageningen University (site in Dutch).
- 28-29 March 2007, St. Louis, Missouri, USA: Biomass Refining: Pathways to Sustainability and Security, a technical short course sponsored by Penn State University.
- 28-29 March 2007, Piteå, Sweden: First Annual Solander Symposium; focused on forest-based, pulp mill biorefinery concept.
- 29-30 March 2007, Abuja, Nigeria: Executive Reach Ethanol & Biofuels.
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February 2007
- 1 February 2007, Washington, D.C.: Transportation Biofuels Conference. Organized by the US Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.
- 4-7 February 2007, San Antonio, Texas: National Biodiesel Conference & Expo.
- 6-8 February 2007, Pasadena, California, United States:Presummit and Summit: Designing Sustainable Mobility.
- 12 February 2007, Washington, D.C., USA: US Congressional Briefing - Cellulosic Ethanol: Not Just a Liquid Fuel. House Briefing: 11:00am - 12:30 pm, 1302 Longworth House Office Building. Senate Briefing: 2:00pm-3:30pm, 253 Russell Senate Office Building. These briefings are open to the public and no reservations are required.
- 12-16 February 2007, London, UK: Bio-Fuels and Sustainability
- 19-21 February 2007, Tucson, Arizona, United States: National Ethanol Conference: Policy & Marketing. Organized by the Renewable Fuels Association.
- 20 February 2007, 2:00-5:00 p.m., Washington, D.C., USA: Ethanol, Biodiesel, and the Biofuels Revolution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- 20-21 February 2007, San Francisco, USA: Clean Energy Finance; Email: info@greenpowerconferences.com to request details once available.
- 26 February - 2 March 2007, New York, NY, USA: Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the fifteenth session of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development.
- 27-28 February 2007, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop.
- 28 February-2 March 2007, Wels, Austria: World Sustainable Energy Days 2007
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January 2007
- 11-12 January 2007 San Antonio, Texas: The Impact of Ethanol on Energy Supply in the Americas organized by Informa Economics, F.O. Licht and Ethanol Market, LLC.
- 18-19 January 2007, San Diego, California: Biomass Finance and Investment Summit, organized by Financial Research Associates, LLC
- 22-24 January 2007, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain: Power-Gen Middle East.
- 29-31 January 2007, Brussels, Belgium: European Renewable Energy Policy Conference organized by the European Renewable Energy Council.
- 29-30 January 2007, Boise, Idaho: Harvesting Clean Energy VII.
- 31 January 2007, Wooster, Ohio: Waste to Energy Workshop for the Ohio Livestock & Food Processing Industries (pdf).
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2006
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December 2006
- 3-7 December 2006, San Francisco, California: 11th National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference
- 5-8 December 2006, Fremantle, Western Australia: Bioenergy Australia 2006.
- 10-12 December 2006, Banff Springs, Alberta, Canada: Canadian Renewable Fuel Summit.
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November 2006
- 1-3 November 2006; Chicago, Illinois, United States: Ethanol and Biodiesel Project Finance: The Tutorial, Chicago Mart Plaza.
- 7-9 November 2006; Beijing, China: Hart's 5th Annual World Refining and Fuels Conference: Asia, Hotel Kunlun.
- 11-15 November 2006, Rome, Italy: 20th World Energy Congress and Exhibition promoted by the World Energy Council.
- 13 November 2006 Crystal City, Virginia, USA, Energy Forum #8: Thinking Differently About Energy Sources A Paradigm Shift - From Waste to Fuel with Brian S. Appel, Chairman and CEO, Changing World Technologies, Inc. co-sponsored by The Secretary of Defense's Office of Force Transformation (OFT) and the Under Secretary for Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
- 13-15 November 2006; Washington, D.C., United States: Cellulosic Ethanol Summit - Integrating Communities in the Value Chain to Build a New Industry.
- 13-15 November 2006; Denver, Colorado, United States: Coal Gasification: The Path Forward, Sheraton Denver West Hotel.
- 20-21 November 2006, Warsaw, Poland: European Biofuels Conference 2006, World Refining Association
- 21-22 November 2006,Brussels, Belgium: 1st European Bioplastics Conference.
- 21-23 November 2006; Bangkok, Thailand: 2nd International Conference on: Sustainable Energy and Environment 2006 "Technology and Policy Innovations".
- 27-29 November 2006; Washington, D.C., United States: Future Fuels Conference, Madison Hotel.
- 29-30 November 2006; Washington, D.C., United States: Policy Assumptions and Forecasts of Renewable Energy's Contribution to US Energy Supply 2010 to 2050, annual policy forum of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).
- 30 November - 1 December 2006; Cape Town, South Africa: Biofuels Markets Africa.
- 29 November-1 December, Geneva, Switzerland: WTO Expert Meeting on the Participation of Developing Countries in New Dynamic Sectors of World Trade: Review of the Energy Sector.
- 29 November - 1 December 2006,Vienna, Austria: Sixth Meeting of the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (GFSE-6) “Africa is energizing itself”.
- November 29 - 3 December,Salvador, Brazil: 2006 Bioenergy World Americas.
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October 2006
- 9-11 October 2006, Nairobi, Kenya: Workshop on Sustainable Use, Supply and Production of Biomass in Africa, organized by the IEA and UNEP.
- 10-12 October 2006, St. Louis, Missouri, United States: Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance. Sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Energy (DOE)
- Keynote speakers include: Samuel Bodman, U.S. Secretary of Energy; Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Vinod Khosla-Founder, Khosla Ventures; Patricia A Woertz, President & CEO, Archer Daniels Midland Company; Matthew Simmons, Chairman and CEO, Simmons and Company International; James R. Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and many others.[3]
- 10-12 October 2006, Beijing, China: Asia Biofuels Conference and Expo IV.
- 12-13 October 2006, Bonn, Germany: Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy; Conference hosted by the German NGO Forum Environment & Development and the United Nations Foundation.
- Read the UN Foundation Press Release (11 October 2006) and documentation from the conference.
- 16-18 October 2006, Washington, DC United States: World Refining and Fuels Conferences: Refining and Renewables--Working for a Sustainable Future. Organized by Hart Energy Conferences.
19-20 October 2006, Helsinki, Finland: European Conference on Biorefinery Research.
- 23-24 October 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil: VI International Datargo Conference on Sugar and Alcohol (PDF File).
- 24-27 October 2006, Beijing, China: Great Wall Renewable Energy Forum. Includes a technical conference and trade show.
- 30-31 October 2006, Rome, Italy: International Seminar on Energy and the Forest Products Industry. Organized by FAO, IEA and ICFPA.
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September 2006
- 22 September 2006; Washington, D.C., United States: "Cellulosic Ethanol Technology: Is it Ready To Be Commercially Deployed Today?, organized by EESI.
- A Congressional briefing on "some of the leading companies' projects, their plans for deployment, their technological approaches, as well as risks and challenges that the industry still faces." Included speakers from Iogen Corp., Celunol Corp., BlueFire Ethanol, Inc., and WestLB Securities, Inc.
- According to the press release, the US Department of Energy "has set a goal of displacing 30 percent of gasoline demand (2004 levels) with biofuels, primarily ethanol, by 2030. The opportunities to address national security, climate change and rural economic pressures by increasing the deployment of cellulosic technologies are viewed as a "win-win-win" by many."[4]
- 18-20 September 2006; Washington, D.C. United States: The Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization, organized by the Climate Institute.
- The conference will "assess the likelihood that we are tipping toward abrupt and highly disruptive climate change" and will "launch the International Leadership Alliance for Climate Stabilization."[5]
- 12 September 2006; Washington, D.C., United States: Alliance to Save Energy 2006 Summit – Energy Efficiency: The First Solution to Climate Change
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August 2006
- 29 August 2006, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States: Richard G. Lugar-Purdue Summit on Energy Security (invitation-only)
- According to its website, the conference "will cover national security and economic policies, biomass and coal-based fuels, and suggest business and government strategies."[6]
- 1-2 August 2006, Washington, D.C., United States: "30X30 Workshop" sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Biomass Program (OBP). (Invitation only).
- According to the conference website, the "purpose of this workshop is to obtain input from industry, academia, and other experts to develop plausible scenarios to achieve the goals set forth in the President's Biofuels Initiative" (including to make cellulosic ethanol cost-competitive by 2012).[7]
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