Responses to Notifications for Biofuels and Biodiversity

Notification: SCBD/STTM/JM/DCO/76500 (2011-121)

Agricultural biodiversity: biofuels and biodiversity
Experiences and results from assessments of the impacts of biofuel production and use on biodiversity and impacts on biodiversity that affect related socioeconomic conditions
CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points and relevant Organisations

Submission	Date	Contents
Brazil	29-Sep-2011	Brazil's Submission
European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)	21-Jun-2011	BioScore: A tool to assess the impacts of European Community policies on Europe’s biodiversity (2009) ECNC (2008) Impacts of biofuel production on biodiversity in Europe. Eggers J., et al. (2009) Is biofuel policy harming biodiversity in Europe? Global Change Biology Bioenergy 1: 18-34. IEA Bioenergy Task 38 workshop (2009) Land Use Changes due to Bioenergy - Quantifying and Managing Climate Change and other Environmental Impacts. Louette G., et al. (2010) BioScore - Cost-effective assessment of policy impact on biodiversity using species sensitivity scores. Journal for Nature Conservation 18-2: 142-148.
European Union	29-Sep-2011	Belgium European Union (EU) Finland Finland : National and Regional Experiences (2009) Germany Netherlands United Kingdom Renewable Energy Directive Report (2010) (supplemental submission from the United Kingdom) France France: BIO Intelligence Service (2010) (french) Ecofys Report (2011) (submitted by the Netherlands) Ecofys Report (2009) (submitted by the Netherlands)
Norway	23-Oct-2011	Norway's Submission
Swedish Board of Agriculture	27-Sep-2011	Sustainable Bioenergy Production (2010) Meat and milk production in Sweden and its impact on biodiversity and climate (2011) (Swedish) English Summary Biologisk mångfald och bioenergii odlingslandskapet (2009) (Swedish) English Summary Sustainable Production of Bioenergy from Agriculture and Forestry in the Nordic Countries (2009) Impacts of biofuel production on biodiversity in Europe (2008).
Switzerland	2-Nov-2011	Switzerland's Submission
UNEP-WCMC	30-Sep-2011	The Bioenergy and Water Nexus (2011) Review: The impacts of biofuel production on biodiversity (2009) Protecting Biodiversity When Planning and Implementing Bioenergy Policy and Projects JNCC Report: Indirect Land Use Change from biofuel production (2011) The Potential for Biofuel in Uganda (2010) Towards sustainable production and use of resources: Assessing Biofuels (2009) UNEP DTIE’s issue paper series Bioenergy decision support tool
United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS)	29-Jun-2011	Cover Letter Gasparatos, A., Stromberg, P., Takeuchi, K. (2011) Biofuels, ecosystem services and human wellbeing: Putting biofuels in the ecosystem services narrative. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 142 (3-4): 111-128. UNU-IAS Policy Report Impacts of Liquid Biofuels on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (2010) Interlinkages in climate change- vulnerability of a mitigation strategy: Implications of increased typhoon intensity on biofuel production (2009)
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)	10-Nov-2011	Forests and Energy (2011)

Notification: SCBD/STTM/JM/RH/64589 (2008-100)

Request for submissions of information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels. Below are some of the submissions received. Many of the articles have now been posted as links in Tools and Approaches or in Additional resources:

• Submission by the Czech EU Presidency and the European Commission on behalf of the European Community and its Members States - including individual contributions from Belgium, the Czech Republic, the European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom (2008).
  

• Development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels (2008) - submission by UNEP-WCMC
  

• Development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels (2008) - submission by Australia
  

• ICRISAT’s experiences on development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels (2008) - report submitted by Bioversity International on behalf of the CGIAR Centres
  

• Experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels (2008) - produced by the Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resources Canada, with input from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  

• An Examination of the Impacts of Production and Use of Liquid Biofuels for Transportation on Biodiversity (2008) - prepared for Environment Canada
  

• Convention on Biological Diversity – Biofuels Notification (2008) - submitted by Canada

• Evaluación ambiental estratégica de políticas, planes y programas de biocombustibles en Colombia con énfasis en biodiversidad (2008) - submitted by Colombia (in Spanish)