Bioenergy and Land Use Workshop (June 2016)

EERA Bioenergy Joint Programme / SUPERGEN Bioenergy Cooperation Workshop

Location: 170 Princes Gate, Imperial College, London SW7 5HF

Date: Thursday 2 June 2016

Venue, participants and objectives

This workshop will review currently ongoing research on the topic of the relationship between bioenergy development and land-use, from local to global scales. The main objective of the workshop is to propose ideas for common R&D projects within the members of the UK SUPERGEN Hub and the EERA Bioenergy Joint-Programme, targeting national or European calls for 2016 and 2017.

Participants are expected from the institutes involved in the SUPERGEN Hub and sub-programme 4 of the EERA Bioenergy JP. Invitations may be extended to relevant representatives from other research institutes, the industry and government bodies. A total of 20 to 50 participants are thus expected.

The workshop is scheduled on June 2nd, at Imperial College in London, and is free of charge. To register, you simply need to send an e-mail to Benoit Gabrielle (Benoit.Gabrielle@agroparistech.fr) with your name, organisation name and email address.

Short presentations are invited from workshop participants in the two main sessions: if you would like to give a talk, please send an e-mail to Patricia Thornley ( Patricia.Thornley@manchester.ac.uk ) and Benoit Gabrielle ( Benoit.Gabrielle@agroparistech.fr ) with a title and an abstract (or at least a few lines on the content) by May 10th.We will respond to these suggestions by May 20th.

Workshop programme

09:30 – 10:00 – Arrival of participants (coffee)

10:00 – 10:10  – Workshop introduction

Patricia Thornley (University of Manchester) & Benoît Gabrielle (INRA/AgroParisTech, Paris)

10:10 – 12:15  – Land-use changes across scales

Chair: Benoît Gabrielle                    

Keynote lecture to introduce the topic

[ Hugo Valin, IIASA, Vienna ]

5 to 6 contributions [15 minutes each, including Q&A] are invited from workshop participants on the estimation of land-use change (LUC) effects at local to global scale (ie including direct and indirect LUC), and the impacts of biomass feedstock production/extraction on ecosystem services.

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break 

13:15 – 15:15  – Accounting for land-use and land-use change emissions in bioenergy systems

Chair:Patricia Thornley

Keynote lecture to introduce the topic

[ speaker tbc ]

5 to 6 contributions [15 minutes each, including Q&A] are invited from workshop participants on the session’s topic.

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break 

15:30 – 16:30 Round table on future challenges and research avenues to tackle land-use changes across scales and account for them in policy-making

[ With an introduction on opportunities around H2020 ]

16:30 Workshop close