The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its first Outlook for Biogas and Biomethane: a global geospatial assessment. The report analyses the sector, reviewing current policies, business models, consumption patterns and supply trends. It examines potential environmental impacts, highlighting the importance of minimising associated methane emissions and responsibly managing organic …
A new report from IEA Bioenergy’s Task 42: Biorefining in a Circular Economy highlights the potential of combining biomass-based processes with locally-sourced hydrogen derived from surplus renewable energy. The report includes four case studies – in Australia, Brazil, Italy and the USA – and suggests some guidelines for the establishment …
In January 2025 EBNet supported a by-invitation workshop on GHG emissions in sanitation systems. The workshop was run by EBNet’s N2O WG in conjunction with Prof Barbara Evans and her team at the University of Leeds, and included participants from half a dozen countries. The focus was on measurement of …
Clear signs of another drubbing coming for the UK water companies, with an item on today’s BBC News website headlined Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England. The piece, by BBC correspondent Esme Stallard, shows the Environment Agency, Public Accounts Committee, Secretary of State for the Environment, NGOs and …
EBNet does science rather than politics, but we do respond to national and other surveys where our expertise is relevant to policy formation. And at present it is impossible to be unaware of the troubled state of the UK water industry. Today’s headline item ‘Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest …
Presentations from our webinar Opportunities in Biogas – an IEA Task 37 perspective are now available on EBNet’s YouTube channel. This webinar was jointly hosted by EBNet and the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), with the aim of making people more familiar with the vast array of information and …
IEA Bioenergy’s Task 36: Material and Energy valorisation of waste in a Circular Economy has published a report on Social and Environmental Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste in the Context of the UN SDGs. The work builds on input from participants in a series of regional workshops held in South Africa, …
Date: 13 May 2025, 12-13:30 BST (13-14:30 CEST) IEA Bioenergy Task 37 is running a webinar on Manure to Biogas: Global Lessons and Challenges in Unlocking Farm-Based Potential. This webinar builds on a recent report and aims to explore the untapped potential of manure-based biogas systems in a global context. …
The International Fugitive Emissions Abatement Association IFEAA has carried out a review of factors enabling on-farm anaerobic digestion and methane capture. The IFEAA team, including EBNet’s Network Co-Manager Angela Bywater, worked with system developers to understand policy, regulatory, skills and technology aspects, as part of the Cornwall-based Net Zero Methane …
Title: Synergies of renewable hydrogen and biobased value chains deployment: Environmental performance and promising value chains Date: 6 May 2025, 15-16:30 Central European Summer Time (CEST) Location: Online via TEAMs This webinar aims to shed light on promising biobased value chains that could exploit synergies between the hydrogen sector and the …
BBNet and EBNet are delighted to announce that registration is now open for a workshop exploring how thermal, thermochemical, and biological conversion technologies may be integrated to improve environmental and economic outcomes of waste and biomass valorisation processes. This two day in-person workshop will be led by the EBNet biochars …
28-30 October 24, 9:00 hrs – 17:00 hrs, #8 Wates House (details below), University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Register HERE Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a robust and systematic methodology to evaluate and analyse the environmental impacts of a product or service system across its whole life cycle. This …
Webinar: 8 May 2024, 12-13:00. Register HERE. The latest CircularChem webinar on 8th May with guest speakers Professor Thomas A. Adams II and Professor Benoit Chachuat as they present the latest research on eco-technoeconomic analyses. More from the National Interdisciplinary Centre for the Circular Chemical Economy here.
GWP standards, carbon offsetting schemes, carbon footprint calculator and offsetting methodologies and techno-economic analysis (TEA) Registration closed. This workshop aimed to explore with stakeholders the policy landscape for the EBNet community, especially the drivers and incentives for carbon offsetting technologies. How do we define such technologies? What is the methodological …
EBNet Co-I Prof Tom Curtis and Network co-Manager Angela Bywater headed to Fairbanks Alaska from 4th to 7th March 2024 to discuss renewable energy from anaerobic digestion in remote and off-grid applications. The meeting was hosted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and funded by the NATO Science for …
