Joint European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)/Task 39 workshop
The joint European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)/Task 39 workshop was held on May 16-17 at JRC in Ispra, Italy. The theme of workshop was “Biofuels Sustainability – Focus on Lifecycle Analysis”. In addition to Task 39’s country members, many representatives of the biofuels industry participated including UPM, Neste, ISCC, REG, LBST, IFPEN, ENI, and Topsoe. The rationale of the workshop was to scope and discuss with top experts on future work items for the Task 39’s LCA model comparison work in the past three years. The previous work showed that LCA models function properly and it is possible to harmonize them with differences due primarily to different system boundaries, different allocation approaches and different assumptions that have been used to adapt to regional situations and to fill in data gaps. The workshop discussions were not limited to LCA and a broader view of biofuels sustainability, co-processing, development in the 14C method for tracking the bio-component in fuels, uncertainty in LCA, availability of sustainable feedstock, and uptake of drop-in biofuels were also discussed.
