International Bioenergy Trade: History, status & outlook on securing sustainable bioenergy supply, demand and markets

The trade of global bioenergy commodities, such as ethanol, biodiesel and wood pellets has been growing exponentially in the past decade, and have by 2013 reached true “commodity” volumes, i.e. tens of millions of tonnes traded each year, and billions (both in US$/€) of annual turnover.

IEA Bioenergy Task 40 was founded in 2004 and is now in its 4^th triennium. For the past 9 years, task 40 has monitored the developments in international bioenergy trade, including the organization of about ...