Biogas for clean cooking, nutritious food, climate change mitigation: Voices of grassroots women
22/05/2025
The webinar explores how biogas is improving lives in rural India. Hear firsthand stories from grassroots women leaders and practical insights from the field about promoting biogas as a sustainable energy solution for rural households.
Small scale biomass applications for clean cooking
29/04/2025
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) and GBEP co-organized a webinar to discuss the opportunities of microgasification for decentralized bioenergy systems. Through real-world case studies, experts and project developers showcased how such technologies are being used to enhance energy access, economic growth, and environmental sustainability.
Tailored waste-to-energy solutions: Understanding the sustainable investment opportunities of biogas
08/04/2025
Biogas from agrifood residues and waste can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve waste management, and generate renewable energy. But what does it take to make biogas projects financially viable and technically feasible?
From data to insights: exploring FAOSTAT's bioenergy domain
18/02/2025
This webinar provides a live demonstration of the new bioenergy domain within FAOSTAT, the largest global knowledge product for agrifood systems.
Bioethanol for clean cooking: Opportunities for improving the sustainability of local value chains
03/02/2025
Bioethanol offers a renewable, locally sourced fuel that can boost rural economies and enhance energy security. However, its adoption for cooking varies by context. This webinar shares insights from FAO-led workshops in Rwanda and Uganda, along with a case study from Kenya on cassava-based bioethanol production.
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage: Understanding the climate benefits
11/07/2024
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a process by which biogenic CO2 from a bioenergy pathway is captured and stored, permanently removing it from the atmosphere. It is recognized as an important suite of technologies for limiting global warming to 1.5 °c.
Biogenic CO2 use and storage: Enhancing the circularity and climate benefits of biogas
15/04/2024
This webinar looks into how bio-CCUS from biogas can contribute to climate mitigation, analysing novel pathways for the use of bio-CO2 for clean biofuels and commodity chemicals.
Ethanol as a clean cooking fuel in East Africa
22/01/2024
Globally, 2.3 billion people lack access to clean cooking and rely on traditional woodfuel, such as firewood and charcoal, for cooking and heating. This traditional use of woodfuel poses health and environmental risks, including GHG emissions, air pollution, deforestation and landscape degradation.
Carbon accounting for wood energy: understanding wood energy data and model estimates
20/01/2024
Ensuring accurate data is essential for the responsible use of wood energy and maximizing its benefits. This webinar enhances our understanding of global wood energy data, its challenges, and general methods for estimating fuels used in household cooking.
Biomass production practices for improving biofuels sustainability
19/01/2024
In the last two decades, production and consumption of liquid biofuels increased 11-fold, driven by incentivizing public policies. With growing demand for biofuels, it's crucial for biomass supply to keep pace, all while considering the various competing uses of biomass. In this webinar, we uncover innovative practices in biomass production to boost supply and prioritize sustainability.
Promoting anaerobic digestion for waste management
16/05/2023
Management and disposal of organic waste is a major global issue. Anaerobic digestion offers a good opportunity for reducing waste volume, odours and derived greenhouse gas emissions. The webinar addresses how anaerobic digestion of waste can provide renewable energy and soil amendment, digestate, through a circular economy principle embracing the Water-Food-Energy Nexus.
Digestate: a nature-based solution to optimize the water-energy-food nexus in the agrifood system
27/04/2023
The GBEP webinar “Co-benefits of biogas and biomethane - Digestate: a nature-based solution to optimize the water-energy-food nexus in the agrifood system” is a unique chance to learn about digestate, a by-product of anaerobic digestion, and its positive impacts in terms of soil fertility, nutrients circularity and reduction of GHG emissions from agricultural systems.
Alternatives to woodfuel for restoring forests landscapes
18/04/2023
2.3 billion people globally rely on woodfuel as their primary energy source for cooking and heating, but its unsustainable use can drive deforestation. Finding alternatives is urgent. This webinar explores solutions implemented in Ghana and Indonesia to reduce the traditional use of woodfuel and the pressure on forest resources, contributing to forest landscapes conservation.
Biomass for hydrogen - Facilitating the contribution to the sustainable energy transition
02/11/2022
This webinar presents research in the field of biohydrogen from both Europe and Brazil, whilst also providing perspectives on the use of biomass in integrated renewable fuel systems, such as Power-to-X. The discussion session delves into the sustainability criteria for the deployment of these technologies and necessary policy frameworks.
Advanced liquid biofuels for net zero – How to ensure sustainable and responsible sourcing in supply chains?
26/10/2022
The webinar, organized in collaboration with FAO Markets and Trade Division (EST) and the Biofuture Campaign, explores sustainable and responsible sourcing in agricultural supply chains, the link to the advanced biofuel sector, and risk-based due diligence to improve the sustainability of advanced liquid biofuels.
Green jobs in biogas
01/06/2022
The webinar focuses on developing local biogas value chains for the creation of sustainable green jobs. Two case studies are presented – from Mexico and sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion session also provides an opportunity for learning between regions.
Exploring the bioenergy-nutrition nexus
30/05/2022
This webinar explores the nexus between bioenergy and nutrition, and present opportunities where this nexus could be leveraged by both nutrition and bioenergy communities to improve nutrition security.
Biohydrogen for the sustainable energy transition – developments, opportunities and challenges
18/05/2022
This webinar introduces biohydrogen, an attractive fuel option for transport and electricity generation, its production as part of a biorefinery concept, and some pathways for biohydrogen production.
Advanced liquid biofuels for net zero transport – from experiences to action
02/11/2021
Bioenergy is recognized as an integral component in a low carbon global energy system. This webinar showcases experiences from across the world in the development and production of advanced liquid biofuels. The webinar takes a roundtable, interactive format, with the guiding theme being private sector perspectives on policies for advanced biofuels for net zero transport targets.
Learning from successful case studies on biogas in Asia
09/09/2021
This webinar focuses on biogas in Asia, with case studies from the Philippines and Japan. For the Philippines, the speaker focuses on commercial uses for rice straw and co-designing biogas business plans with local communities. For Japan, the converrsation centers on with research techniques for analysing the success of biogas business models.