Biomass energy

Rising demand for renewable energy could drive more land grabs

30 August 2011
Media release
Energy
Land acquisitions and rights

Rising demand for the dominant form of renewable energy worldwide – wood – could drive yet more acquisitions of land in developing countries where food insecurity is rising and land rights are weak, say researchers at IIED.

Can the forest biomass boom be made sustainable?

3 May 2011
Media release
Forests
Energy

IIED is supporting the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference, which will explore the changing role of forestry in the search for greener economies that reduce carbon emissions.

Bundles of energy: the case for renewable biomass energy

11 April 2011
Article
Forests

Every month we highlight a new, groundbreaking or bestselling IIED research outcome. This month we feature IIED's new publications Bundles of energy: the case for renewable biomass energy.

Biomass energy: optimising its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem services

21 January 2011
Project
Energy

Biomass energy makes up 77 per cent of the world’s renewable energy - or 10 per cent of the world’s total energy mix (3 per cent in OECD and 22 per cent in non-OECD countries). As a major and increasing component of land use, biomass energy systems therefore have significant impacts on both ecosystem services and poverty.

Energy and forests

21 January 2011
Article
Energy
Forests

Biomass energy currently makes up 10% of the global primary energy mix, but this is expected to expand to 30% by 2050. In the South, biomass enterprises often dominate forest-sector activities and have massive implications for forest governance, the prospects for the growth of small forest enterprise, and climate-change adaptation and mitigation.

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