1 | IEA Bioenergy Task 38 Bioenergy – the evolution of sustainability schemes and certification of lifecycle GHG emissions November , 2013 Helena Chum, Ethan Warner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA Annette Cowie Rural Climate Solutions, UNE/DPI, Australia

2 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Outline Three systems – two examples 1.US EPA – Renewable Fuel Standard II 2.EU – Renewable Energy Directive 3.California Low Carbon Fuel Standards Sustainability Schemes Beyond GHG metrics

Comparative Application: EU-RED, US-EPA, CA LCFS

4 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Life-cycle GHG emissions limits specified by policy are indicated by arrows for the EU-RED as (A): 35% reduction, (B): 50% reduction (applies for production after 2017); for US EPA Renewable Fuel Standard legislated thresholds are: (C): 50% reduction for Advanced Biofuel, (D) 60% reduction for Cellulosic Fuel. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) (E) requires 10% average reduction in GHG emissions from all transport technologies including liquid fuels by Green and blue points represent supply chain emissions with and without LUC emissions, respectively, while black points denote fossil fuel references used in each policy framework. The “default” values are EU-RED legislation accepted values for the pathways, and typical values are the values from audits of suppliers. For rapeseed biodiesel results of a published meta-analysis are illustrated, showing the impact of alternative methods for handling co-products. For ethanol from sugarcane, literature of life cycle emissions under different agricultural management practices, process conditions, and energy efficiency for three countries are illustrated. The diamond symbol is placed at the 50th percentile, top and bottom bars indicate the 75th and 25th percentiles. EPA’s examples are for Brazilian sugarcane with and without mechanized harvest. The impact of differences between the regulatory schemes in approach to calculation of LUC is also illustrated in Fig X. The values for direct + indirect LUC for sugarcane ethanol from Brazil are 46, 5, and 13 gCO 2 eq/MJ, respectively for CARB, US EPA, and proposed for the EU RED (Laborde 2011). The latter two values are derived from similar estimates of C stock losses due to LUC, but vary due to the difference in amortization period (30 and 20 years, respectively). Sources: EU RED 2009, US EPA 2010, CARB 2012, Malça and Freire 2011, Amores et al. 2013, García et al. 2011, Seabra et al. 2011, Seabra and Macedo Life-cycle GHG emissions in g CO2eq/MJ for rapeseed and sugarcane biofuels and for the reference fossil fuels.

5 | Bioenergy Technologies Office U.S. Sustainable Bioenergy Activities Reference G. Ostheimer (USDA), Kristen Johnson (DOE Sustainability Lead), GBEP Sustainability Indicators: the U.S. Experience in GBEP 4 th Working Group Meeting on Capacity Building, May 10-13, Berlin, Germany* *See: _events/4th_WGCB_Berlin_29-30_May_2013/2905_3_-_OSTEHIMER_JOHNSON.pdf

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9 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Kristen Johnson & Chris Ramig DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office February, 2013

10 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Kristen Johnson & Chris Ramig DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office February, 2013

11 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Kristen Johnson & Chris Ramig DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office February, 2013

12 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Kristen Johnson & Chris Ramig DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office February, 2013

13 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Kristen Johnson & Chris Ramig DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office February, 2013

14 | Bioenergy Technologies Office References US EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) Regulatory Impact Analysis. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (2010) EPA-420-R U.S. EPA Biofuels and the Environment: the First Triennial Report to Congress (2011 Final Report). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-10/183F, US EPA (2013) RFS Renewable Identification Number (RIN) Quality Assurance Program, NPRM: 78 FR 12158, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Citation, 40 CFR Part 80. US EPA 2013 Final Rule for Additional Qualifying Renewable Fuel Pathways under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program, Final Rule for Additional Qualifying Renewable Fuel Pathways under the RFS2 Program (PDF) (4 pp, 222K, EPA-420-F , February 2013) Final Rule (PDF) (28 pp, 2.90MB, published March 5, 2013) Rule for Additional Qualifying Renewable Fuel Pathways under the RFS2 Program (PDF)Final Rule (PDF)

EU-RED Compliant Schemes Recognised Voluntary Schemes Since 19 July 2011, the EC has recognised voluntary schemes that applies directly in 27 EU Member States. Schemes include the Assessment report and the Commission Implementing Decision. 1. ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) 2. Bonsucro EU 3. RTRS EU RED (Round Table on Responsible Soy EU RED) 4. RSB EU RED (Roundtable of Sustainable Biofuels EU RED) 5. 2BSvs (Biomass Biofuels voluntary scheme) 6. RBSA (Abengoa RED Bioenergy Sustainability Assurance) 7. Greenergy (Greenergy Brazilian Bioethanol verification programme) 8. Ensus voluntary scheme under RED for Ensus bioethanol production 9. Red Tractor (Red Tractor Farm Assurance Combinable Crops & Sugar Beet Scheme) 10. SQC (Scottish Quality Farm Assured Combinable Crops (SQC) scheme) 11. Red Cert 12. NTA RSPO RED (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil RED) 14. Biograce GHG calculation tool Renewable Energy Progress and Biofuels Sustainability, prepared by ECOFYS and a group of entities for the European Commission, 2013, 450 pages available at

17 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Biofuels RD&D in BIOENERGY Dina Bacovsky, BIOENERGY Eco-Mobility 2013, 4th Oct. 2013, Vienna

18 | Bioenergy Technologies Office The Big Ten GEA, 2012: Global Energy Assessment – Toward a Sustainable Future, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK and New York, NY, USA and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. Figure 3.12

19 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Sustainability Activities

20 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Assessing water quality and quantity impacts conference_March_2013.pdf

21 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Harvesting residue at sustainable rates

22 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Recovering nutrients with bioenergy crops

23 | Bioenergy Technologies Office Enabler of Large-scale Bioenergy – Sustainability Considerations NREL, ANL, INL, ORNL, DOI: /bbb.1391; Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 7:282–302 (2013)