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.