Biomass for energy

- lessons from the Bioenergy Boom -

(24-25 November 2014, Leipzig)

24 November 2014

Welcome by

• Daniela Thrän (UFZ):
  Bioenergy unlimited?
  Challenges, opportunities and critical control points for a sustainable bioenergy use within the German Energiewende
• Jeremy Woods (Imperial College London): Global bioenergy - a stepping stone to a sustainable future or a key component for the foreseeable future?
  

Lunch

Lunch

Sessions

Sessions

Session 1 (room 1C)

"Effects of energy crop cultivation on watercourses"

Session 1

• Introduction
  
• 01:10 - 01:35 pm: Katja Bunzel: Energy crops and pesticide contamination
• 01:35 - 02:00 pm: Seifeddine Jomaa: Effect of increased bioenergy crop production on instream water quality in central Germany
  
• Short break
• 02:10 - 02:35 pm: A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi: Water quality impact assessment of large-scale energy crop expansion
• 02:35 - 03:00 pm: Cornelia Fürstenau: Short rotation coppice as riparian buffer strips
  
• Discussion
  

Session 2 (room 1D)

"Flexible (bio-) power – The future for biomass in the energy system?"

Session 2

• Introduction
  
• 01:10 - 01:35 pm: Philip Tafarte: Can flexible power production from biomass complement the fluctuating feed-in from wind and solar power? Results from a case study for a German region
  
• 01:35 - 02:00 pm: Alexandra Purkus:  Incentives for demand-oriented renewable electricity production – lessons learned from the sliding market premium and perspectives
• Short break
• 02:10 - 02:35 pm: Eva Hauser:  The role of bioenergy during the energy system transformation – whose demand should be satisfied by bioenergy?
• 02:35 - 03:00 pm:  Birger Lauersen: Green District Heating
• Discussion
  

Coffee break

Coffee break

Sessions

Sessions

Session 3 (room 1C)

"Effects of energy crop cultivation on soil functions"

Session 3

• Introduction
  
• 04:10 - 04:35 pm: Humberto Blanco: How does soil respond to energy crop production?
• 04:35 - 05:00 pm: Mehmet Senbayram: Emissions of greenhouse gases from biogas crop production systems
  
• Short break
  
• 05:10 - 05:35 pm: Uwe Franko: Climate change induced carbon competition: bioenergy versus soil organic matter reproduction - an indicator bassed assessment
• 05:35 - 06:00 pm: Halil Coban: Contribution of biogas residues to soil carbon and CO2 emissions when applied to arable soil
  
• Discussion
  

Session 4 (room 1D)

"Biomass to biofuels - policy, markets, effects"

Session 4

• Introduction
  
• 04:10 - 04:35 pm: Christina Plank: The Agrofuels Project in Ukraine
• 04:35 - 05:00 pm: Anna Mohr: The control of socio-ecological criteria through private governance mechanisms
• Short break
  
• 05:10 - 05:35 pm: Judith Verstegen: Stochastic projection of the effects of an increased biofuel demand on direct and indirect land use change in Brazil
• 05:35 - 06:00 pm: Christian Klassert: Transregional Land-Use Dynamics of Bioenergy Policies – Agent-Based Economic Analyses with the ILUC-MAP Model
• Discussion
  

Poster Session (Foyer KUBUS)

Poster Session (Foyer KUBUS)

Get together in Foyer of Leipziger KUBUS

Get together in Foyer of Leipziger KUBUS

25 November 2014

Poster Session (Foyer KUBUS)

Poster Session (Foyer KUBUS)

Sessions

Sessions

Session 5 (room 1C)

"Effects of energy crop cultivation on land-use, biodiversity & ecosystem services (landscape modelling and empirical studies)"

Session 5

• Introduction
  
• 09:40 - 10:00 am: Felix Witing: Definition and regionalization of agricultural crop production systems on large scales - an integrated approach for environmental modeling and assessment
  
• 10:00 - 10:20 am: Christian Dietrich: Effects of the biomass boom on the crop pest ECB - About the role of landscape structure and the handling of pest infestation
  
• Short break
  
• 10:30 - 10:50 am: Sven Lautenbach: Water related trade-offs of different crop production schemes for biogas production in a German case study
  
• 10:50 - 11:10 am: Jeroen Everaars: Species ecology and the impacts of bioenergy crops: an assessment approach with four example farmland bird species
• 11:10 - 11:30 am: Jens Dauber: The importance of novel energy crops and cropping systems for farmland biodiversity
• Discussion
  

Session 6 (room 1D)

"What's your perspective? - Regional & spatial LCA's for biomass resources"

Session 6

• Introduction
  
• 09:40 - 10:05 am: Steffen Schock: LCA of biogas production in Central Germany
  
• 10:05 - 10:30 am: Stefan Majer: Regional aspects in LCA for Bioenergy Systems
• Short break
  
• 10:40 - 11:05 am: Floor van der Hilst: Regional integrated assessment of environmental and socio-economic impacts of biofuel production demonstrated for Mozambique
• 11:05 - 11:30 am: Stephan Pfister: Life cycle assessment (LCA) of bioenergy and relevance of regionalisation
• Discussion
  

Lunch break

Lunch break

Reports from the Sessions

Reports from the Sessions

Podium Discussion "Bioenergy 2.0 - recommendations from different perspectives"

Podium Discussion "Bioenergy 2.0 - recommendations from different perspectives"