The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) is an international initiative coordinated by the Energy Center at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne that brings together farmers, companies, non-governmental organizations, experts, governments, and inter-governmental agencies concerned with ensuring the sustainability of biofuels production and processing. 

• New!  RSB Newsletter 5 (February 2010)

• IUCN guidelines on biofuels and invasive species (A reference document for the RSB Criterion 7e). 12 February 2010.

• View the Secretariat's 2010 Workplan. 10 February 2010

• RSB-Related job posting. 10 February 2010'

• Translation of RSB Standard Version 1.0 is under progress. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili versions available soon! 10 February 2010

• New pages for the GHG Expert Group and the Indirect Impacts Expert Group! 17 December 2009

• Version One: View the Principles & Criteria, Indicators, Definitions and more! 20 November 2009

The RSB has published the following reports:

• Summary of approaches to accounting for indirect impacts of biofuel production commissioned from the consulting firm Ecofys International BV.

 

• GHG accounting scheme of the RSB: Feasibility of a meta-methodology and ingredients for a strategy forward commissioned from E4Tech Sarl.