The launch of the International Feedstocks data portal was announced today (Thursday 3rd October) by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative at an event, co-hosted with the Mission Innovation (MI) Integrated Biorefinery Mission and MI Carbon Dioxide Removal Mission, during the 15th Annual G20 CEM and 9th Mission Innovation Forum in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
The results from this new global sustainable supply assessment will allow scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore potential sources of biomass as a foundation for a circular and sustainable global bioeconomy, supporting clean fuels, chemicals, materials and other products.
The assessment was conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), with funding provided by the US Department of State , and managed through DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), on behalf of the CEM Biofuture Initiative and Mission Innovation. The data include biomass resources available in many developing economies which often do not have fully advanced biomass industries. The assessment also aims to address the need for internationally accepted benchmarks quantifying sustainable biomass feedstock supplies that can be available to support a growing, circular and climate-smart bioeconomy.
“Global sustainable production and use of biobased fuels, chemicals and products is critical to achieving world-wide greenhouse gas emission reductions” said CEM Biofuture Platform Initiative Chair and BETO Systems Development & Integration Programme Manager, Jim Spaeth. “This report is the first chapter of a multi-year, multilateral effort to capture global biomass resource data in a single location and easy to access digital online format. We are looking for international collaborators to join us to continue this exciting research moving forward.”
The data-sharing portal provides users with an aggregate analysis of sustainable biomass supplies as documented in more than 49 regional and national reports and covering 55 countries. Based on these sources, more than 2,740 million metric tons of sustainable biomass supplies are currently available. Many governments also analysed future potential of sustainable biomass. 42 nations that estimated supplies for 2030 identified up to 2,120 million metric tons of sustainable biomass, an increase of 431 million metric tons of biomass production over what those nations identified as currently available.
The data are hosted on the BETO-funded BioEnergy Knowledge Discovery Framework , or BioenergyKDF, portal. The BioenergyKDF is a centralised data hub designed to accelerate bioenergy innovation and sustainable bioeconomy practices. BETO and ORNL also support the BioenergyKDF and its premier report, the Billion-Ton 2023 series that shares detailed geo-spatial estimates of current and future sustainable biomass resources in the United States.
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