16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, Valencia 2008

From 2nd to 6th June 2008, more than 1,500 participants from 72 countries met in Valencia to attend Europe´s largest biomass congress. The speakers of the 16th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition highlighted the new dimension that biomass has reached in the present and future energy supply.

With more than 270 plenary and oral contributions and in addition more than 400 visual presentations the Conference covered new developments and progress in all biomass related topics. Beside of conversion technologies and biofuels one of the major topics were biomass resources, and in particular the competition between food crops and energy crops. This will determine the future development of bioenergy.

The speakers of the 16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition highlighted the key role that biomass will play to meet the 2020 targets of the European Commission: In 2020, greenhouse gas emissions should have been reduced by 20 percent compared to 1990 levels. A 20 percent reduction is targeted for the global primary energy use through energy efficiency. While the share of renewable energies in the European Union´s overall mix should rise to 20 percent.

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