Global Bioenergy Partnership
01/12/2006
Emanman Tukei mixes the shredded groundnut husks with shredded Prosopis Juliflora chips in the process of making non-carbonised briquettes in Turkana, Kenya.
©FAO /Judith Mulinge
The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) is a voluntary-based global initiative devoted to facilitate the development of sustainable bioenergy. Bringing together public, private and civil society representatives, it provides a forum to:
- develop effective policy frameworks to suggest rules and tools to promote sustainable biomass and bioenergy development;
- facilitate investments in bioenergy;
- promote project development and implementation;
- and to foster research and development (R&D) and commercial bioenergy activities.
GBEP aims to be a mechanism for partners to organize, coordinate and implement targeted international research, development, demonstration and commercial activities related to production, delivery, conversion and use of biomass for energy, with a focus on developing countries.
GBEP also provides a forum to develop effective policy frameworks, suggest rules and tools to promote sustainable biomass and bioenergy development, facilitate investments in bioenergy, promote project development and implementation, and foster bioenergy activities.
FAO is amongst the main founders of GBEP and hosts its Secretariat at FAO headquarters in Rome.
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