Sustainability
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What is sustainability?
- Sustainability refers to the capability of complex systems to maintain themselves over time.
- When used in the context of human activity, sustainability usually has three aspects: social, economic and environmental.
- All three aspects must be met if something is to be considered truly sustainable.
- Anything which protects the environment by driving people into poverty, or something that supports the economy while undermining environmental services, will inevitably collapse, often with devastating consequences for people today and future generations.
- While nothing can be sustained forever, ecosystems, including those with humans, have maintained themselves for tens of thousands of years.
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Sustainability and bioenergy
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Measuring and Monitoring
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Events
Note: Also see events listed on the BioenergyWiki page Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels.
2009
- 5 June 2009, Bonn, Germany: Agriculture, land and climate change: side-event at the UNFCCC meeting Participants include representatives from FAO and ICRAF. (Themes: Climate change, land use change, agriculture, Europe, sustainable).
- 31 January - 1 February 2009, San Francisco, California, USA: 6th Annual Sustainable Biodiesel Summit 2009. (Themes: biodiesel, sustainability)
- 23-24 February 2009, London, UK: Sustainable Bioenergy 2009 - New trends in biomass, biogas and biofuels. (Themes: European Union, sustainability, 2nd generation biofuels)
- 28-29 April 2009, Singapore: Bioenergy Forum 2009. (Themes: sustainability, policy, 2nd generation biofuels)
