A new Bioenergy Partnership started On 18 January 2007, between various governments and institutions to bring together public, private and civil society stakeholders in a joint commitment to promote bioenergy for sustainable development.
The Partnership agreed to base its activities on three main pillars:
Energy Security - Food Security - Sustainable Development.
In the short term the Partnership will seek to:
Update the inventory of existing networks, initiatives and institutions dealing with bioenergy;
Identify gaps in knowledge or areas of weak understanding;
Carry out scoping of feasibility studies for market building activities, in cooperation with interested developing countries;
Establish mechanisms for raising awareness and dealing with issues of international relevance (e.g. environmental standards, food security, trade) and gaps in technology and policy;
Formulate standard guidelines to measure the greenhouse gas emission reductions through the promotion and use of biofuels in the transport and energy generation sectors, including the development of baseline methodologies and monitoring tools to be used for project activities in the bioenergy field.
