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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  … In Denmark, Novozymes and partners including the FAO, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Carbon War Room, KLM and the UN Foundation announced the launch of a multi-stakeholder coalition to scale up the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy solutions to meet the global need for sustainable energy. The coalition will act under the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative launched earlier in the decade by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

The Sustainable Bioenergy High-Impact Opportunity (HIO) is a voluntary partnership of likeminded stakeholders that seeks to facilitate the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy solutions to aid SE4ALL in reaching its goals participant universal energy access and doubling the use of renewable energy. All types of bioenergy projects are being promoted including:

1) Renewable biomass for clean cooking solutions;
2) On-farm bioenergy production to boost agricultural yield and reduce post-harvest losses;
3) Distributed electricity production using sustainable biomass from forestry and agriculture co-products;
4) Electricity and fuels from municipal solid waste (MSW);
5) Cellulosic ethanol for clean cooking and transportation; and
6) Sustainable aviation biofuels.

One of the coalition’s key goals is delivering bioenergy options that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable, with a focus on emerging markets and rural communities in developing countries. The effort will be
supported by Novozymes, the world’s largest technology provider to biofuel industries.  FAO and RSB are co-chairing the sustainable bioenergy effort.

The Sustainable Bioenergy High Impact Opportunity (HIO) will pursue three objectives: (i) Knowledge enhancement and information sharing, (ii) Policy support; and (iii) Deployment support. Specifically, the HIO will seek novel means of financing energy access and renewable fuels projects across the globe.

The Objectives

The partners announced three key objectives:

#1 – KNOWLEDGE ENHANCEMENT AND INFORMATION SHARING.  …

#2 — DEPLOYMENT SUPPORT. …

#3 — POLICY SUPPORT. …

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By the time of ABLC Next 2014, we reported that projects have been tough to get going in the developing world – in addition to the usual barriers of feedstock, technology, market risk and policy risk — there’s the whole range of challenges that are summed up in “country risk” — and in steps Sustainable Energy For All movement to get things going from the bottom up to change that equation. The bottom up energy of new technologies and project developers combine with the top-down thrust of the UN and groups like the Asian Development Bank, to blow through the barriers. More on that here.  READ MORE