The Biofuture Platform Initiative has now a newsletter! The aim is to highlight, in a concise format, what the Biofuture Platform, its member countries, and the Facilitator team at the International Energy Agency (IEA) are up to in lighting the path to a sustainable low-carbon bioeconomy.

The Biofuture Platform reaffirms the unwavering commitment to its mandate to promote and exchange lessons, knowledge and analysis on sustainable, environmentally friendly, and resource efficient solutions to scale up the low carbon bioeconomy.

The transition of the Facilitator role to the IEA reinforces the Biofuture Platform’s commitment to shared leadership and international dialogue and collaboration on sustainable bioenergy. The IEA will work closely under the guidance of the Biofuture Platform’s 20 member countries.

We, the interim Facilitator team in Brazil, wish to celebrate a good starting year and wish all of you a great holiday season by summing up a few highlights in this starting year of the Biofuture Platform.

The Biofuture Platform announced today that the International Energy Agency (IEA) was designated to assume the role of Facilitator (a role similar to a Secretariat for the initiative), following the Government of Brazil’s interim tenure in that role.

The decision is set out in a declaration released today by the Biofuture Platform member countries – titled “Scaling Up the Low Carbon Bioeconomy”.