2nd Annual World Congress of Bioenergy (WCBE-2012): Renewable Energy for Sustainaiblity Xi’an, China, 25-28 April 2012
WCBE-2012 will bring together industry leaders, professors, policy makers, investors and researchers to provide unique insights into evolving governmental policies, breakthrough technologies and investment strategies in the bioenergy sector. This event will focus on the use of renewable sources of energy as well as on the co operations between China and the rest of the world through exhibitions and oral presentations by specialists in the field. The Congress thematic sessions include: global bioenergy economy and policy, biofuel technology, biomass feedstock from agriculture, forestry waste and municipal solid waste, biodiesels, algae biofuel, biogasses, aviation biofuels, biofuel finance, investment, trade and marketing, and others. CIFOR will participate in this Congress by presenting two research findings from “EC-Bioenergy: Sustainability and trade-offs - can we avoid deforestation while promoting bioenergy?” project: (1) Biofuel development in Indonesia: progress and challenges (Track 1: Global Bioenergy Economy and Policy), and (2) The prospects and limitations for wood fibre bioenergy development in Indonesia (Track 4: Feedstock from Wood and Forestry and Conversion Technology). More
International Workshop on Large-Scale Agricultural Investments Hamburg, Germany, 11 May 2012
This workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to promote debate, exchange ideas, and shed light on current challenges – in short, it aims to stimulate discussion on large-scale agricultural investments and land deals, which have recently received considerable media coverage. Typically, these deals are perceived as illegal “land grabs”, however, surprisingly little is known of the nature and consequences of land deals: neither on the scale of the phenomenon, nor on the underlying contractual arrangements, and even less on the consequences for the local population. Organised by a research team at GIGA working on a joint research project on “Large-scale land acquisitions and sustainable development” with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the University of Greifswald, the workshop will address the legal and political, socio-economic, ecological and ethical, historical and conflict management dimensions of large-scale land acquisitions and deals. CIFOR will participate in this workshop by presenting a paper on “Food or wood? Why large scale agricultural investments in Indonesia target forested areas.” More.
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