Promoting Bioenergy Development with Spatial Planning Solutions
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The Baltic Region with its agricultural and forest resources has great potential for fulfilling EU objectives for biomass heat, power, and fuel production. However sustainable bio-energy development will depend on overcoming current obstacles throughout the region, including poorly developed logistic or biomass production infrastructures, competing market players for limited local resources, competing land-use interests, or insufficient knowledge of regional potential.
The BSR INTERREG IIIB Baltic Biomass Network works at a regional, spatial planning level with local authorities, biomass producers and bioenergy investors in drawing up optimal GIS based biomass production schemes for mobilising biomass resources and planning sustainable bioenergy investment projects.
The Network does this by developing regional bio-energy development scenarios considering local and international market chances, new technologies, and biomass product lines, environmental, land- and resource use conflicts as well as the implications of GAP reforms and EU bio-energy directives.
Part financed by the European Union within the framework of the BSR INTERREG III B instrument the project networks 13 expert institutions and associated bio-energy stakeholders from Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland.
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