Overview
The Steering committee oversees all the frameworks, bodies and activities of GBEP, including:
- the technical working group, which discusses and develops the GBEP programme of work, to make suggestions to the steering committee about further activities of the partnership;
- the task force on sustainability, which developed the GBEP Indicators to monitor and measure the sustainability of bioenergy pathways at environmental, social and economic level;
- the task force on greenhouse gases (GHG) methodologies, which developed a methodological framework to assess GHG emissions associated with bioenergy; and
- the working group on capacity building, which promotes the dissemination, use and implementation of the outcomes of GBEP work in all thematic areas.
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20th meeting of GBEP's Task Force on Sustainability.
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14th Meeting of the GBEP Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy
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Asunción (Paraguay)
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25th Meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee: Special Session
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19th Meeting of the GBEP Task force on Sustainability
16/11/2021
29th meeting of GBEP's Task Force on Sustainability.
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13th Meeting of the GBEP Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy
15/11/2021
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Virtual Event
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23/06/2021 - 25/06/2021
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Virtual Event
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Eight Bioenergy Week - Ethiopia
16/03/2021 - 18/03/2021
The conference offers a platform to draw positive experiences on sustainable production and use of bioenergy integrated within food production value...
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18th Meeting of the GBEP Task Force on Sustainability
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23rd Meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee
28/10/2020
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27/10/2020
The Working Group...
Roma (Italy)
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22nd Meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee
29/10/2019
Partners and Observers met for the 22nd Meeting of the GBEP Steering Committee.
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Governance
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Contacts
GBEP Secretariat
Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
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00153 Rome, Italy