Overview of the JRC Biomass assessment study

Stockholm, 13 June 2017, 15:00-18:30

The workshop provided an overview of the JRC Biomass assessment study and its state of play. The objective was to share the current results and have an open discussion on uncertainties and possible approaches to overcome the current knowledge gaps. To this aim, selected results from the EU funded project S2Biom were also presented and discussed, seeking for synergies and boundary conditions of both approaches for EU level assessments.

Points addressed included:

• assessment of biomass availability and potentials in EU and related uncertainties and gaps
• biomass supply, uses and flows. Assessment, related uncertainties and gaps
• assessment of environmental impacts of biomass supply chains

Agenda

15:00 Introduction

The Biomass mandate to JRC (Thomas Schleker, DG RTD)

The JRC Biomass assessment study (Andrea Camia, JRC)

Biomass assessment, supply, uses and flows

15:15 Results from the JRC Biomass study

Forest biomass assessment and flows (Nicolas Robert, JRC)

Estimation of crop residue production in Europe with empirical models (Sara Garcia Condado, JRC)

Agricultural biomass supply and uses (Robert M'barek, JRC)

Fisheries, aquaculture & algae biomass assessment (Jordi Guillen, JRC)

Biomass flows in the European Union – The Sankey biomass diagram (Tévécia Ronzon, JRC)

16:15 Synthesis of S2Biom results

Lignocellulosic biomass cost supply in Europe: approach, indicators and refined estimates from S2Biom (Berien Elbersen, Alterra)

Demand for lignocellulosic biomass to bioenergy and biobased products for 2030: vision, roadmap and policy relevant evidence, assessed in S2Biom (Calliope Panoutsou, Imperial College London)

16:45 Discussion

17:00 Environmental Impacts

Environmental impact assessment – Introduction to modelling principles (Jacopo Giuntoli, JRC)

Lessons learned from environmental impact assessment of large modelling frameworks (Nicklas Forsell, IIASA)

17:20 Break

17:35 Environmental Impacts (cont.)

Environmental impact assessment in the JRC Biomass project (Jacopo Giuntoli, JRC)

Sustainability criteria and indicators for the bioeconomy: results from S2Biom for lignocellulosic biomass value chains (Uwe R. Fritsche, IINAS)