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Piloting the GBEP
Sustainability Indicators
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Mr Hamza Tanko
Ghana Renewable Energy Agency
Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)
Seminar, 18 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro
1. Introduction GBEP pilot in Ghana
2. Status of activities
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3. Assignments Research Institutes
4. Questions
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� Funded by: NLAgency (Dutch government)
� Ghana + ECOWAS partners:
• Ghana Renewable Energy Agency
1.1 Project partners
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• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
• Ghana Energy Commission
• ECREEE
� Assisted by: Partners for Innovation (Netherlands)
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1. How to use GBEP Sustainability Indicators as a tool to:
• Assess sustainability of the Ghanaian bio-energy sector
1.2 Goals of the Ghana pilot
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• Develop sustainable bioenergy policies
2. Learning lessons on using the indicators:
• Enhance their practicality for policymakers
• Spread experiences within ECOWAS / GBEP
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– Dr. A.B. Salifu, Director-General, CSIR
– Dr. Hakeem Wemah, Northern Development Forum
– Dr. Agyekum Hene, Africa Biofuel Renewable Energy Company
– Mr. Salifu Abdul-Razak Ziblim, Min. Food and Agri. (MoFA) - DCS
– Dr. Komla B. Kotatsi, Min. of Environment, Sci. and Tech. (MEST)
– Mrs. Florence Agyei, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
1.3 Stakeholder group
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– Mrs. Florence Agyei, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
– Prof. Abeeku Brew-Hammond, Energy Centre, KNUST, Kumasi
– Mr. Kwabena A. Otu-Danquah, Energy Commission
– Dr. Beatrice Mensah, CSIR-Institute of Industrial Research
– Representative , Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources
– Forestry Commission
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• CSIR-FORIG: Forestry Research Institute Ghana
• CSIR-IIR: Institute for Industrial Research
1.4 Involved Research Institutes
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• CSIR-IIR: Institute for Industrial Research
• ISSER: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research
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Nov-Dec 2011 Jan-May 2012 June-Aug 2012 Sep 2012
• Stakeholder identification
• Policy inventory
• Workshop with policymakers
• Stakeholder
• PolicyStakeholder Group
• Terms of
• Data assessment: availability, quality and usefulness
2.0 Status of activities
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inventory
• Selection of indicators
• Pre-selectionof ResearchInstitutes
• Stakeholder review of results
• Report & presentation of results at GBEP and ECOWAS
• Terms of Reference Research Institutes
• Contracting ResearchInstitutes
• Workshop with policymakers
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2.1 Research Institutes
• CSIR-FORIG: Environmental Indicators
• ISSER: Social Indicators
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• ISSER: Social Indicators
• CSIR-IIR: Economic Indicators
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2.2 Selected indicators
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Aim:
1. Collect most appropriate (existing) data
2. Assess usefulness, availability and quality
3. Provide recommendations for improved data collection and use
3.0 Assignments for Institutes
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collection and use
4. Propose baseline values for most important indicators
� GBEP Indicator report is starting point for the work to be carried out
� Uniform reporting in a prescribed Excel template
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• Mid July 2012: draft Final report Institutes
• Mid July 2012: presentation of draft results to Ministry of Energy, Energy Commission
3.1 Deliverables Institutes
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to Ministry of Energy, Energy Commission and Ghana Renewable Energy Agency
• Mid August 2012: Final report Institutes
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Percentage of land for which soil quality, in particular in terms
of soil organic carbon, is maintained or improved out of total
land on which bioenergy feedstock is cultivated or harvested.
The indicator applies to bioenergy production from all
Indicator 2: Soil carbon
3.2 Example reporting
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bioenergy feedstocks.
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