The steering committee provides strategic guidance and periodically reviews the programme of collaborative activities undertaken, including a review of the organizational structure if necessary, and provides direction and instructions for actions to the Secretariat.

It governs the overall framework, policies, procedures and activities of the partnership, including:

• the technical working group, which discusses and develops the GBEP programme of work, to make suggestions to the steering committee about further activities of the partnership;
• the task force on sustainability that monitors sustainability of bioenergy pathways at environmental, social and economic level;
• the task force on greenhouse gases (GHG) methodologies, in charge of developing a methodological framework to assess GHG emissions associated with bioenergy; and
• the working group on capacity building, which  promotes the dissemination, use and implementation of the outcomes of GBEP work in all thematic areas.
  

Decisions on accepting new partners are taken by the steering committee.

The committee meets usually once a year, at time and place to be determined by its appointed representatives.

The current chairmans are Mr. Miguel Almada (Argentina) and Mr. Alessandro Guerri (Italy).