Abstract
From Sustainability-as-usual to Sustainability Excellence in Local Bioenergy Business
Highlights
In 2013, 10% of the global total primary energy supply, 13,541 Mtoe, was derived from biofuels and waste [1]
The last subsection will discuss the sustainability orientation together with the approach for bioenergy businesses to operate at the level of the sustainability orientation
The discussions about relevant sustainability themes and methods in Workshop 1 remained at a general level and are inevitably deficient; the workshop themes covered the major sustainability themes presented in literature [3] and all maturity levels
Summary
In 2013, 10% of the global total primary energy supply, 13,541 Mtoe, was derived from biofuels and waste [1]. Effort has been invested in the form of legislative steering, standardisation and scientific literature that defines the criteria to determine whether a biofuel is sustainable. The EU Directive 2009/28/EC (RED) on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources includes mandatory sustainability criteria. Compliance with these criteria is standard practice, or sustainability-as-usual, to European biofuel producers. In 2013, the EU produced 252 Mtoe of biofuels, of which at least 10% was subject to the RED sustainability criteria [2]. Several sets of ecological, social and economic sustainability Principles, Criteria and Indicators (PCI) have emerged in the scientific literature [3]. Biofuel producers that rely solely on the externally set standards for sustainable biofuels have only taken the first step on the path towards more mature corporate responsibility for sustainability and sustainability excellence
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