Room: King Willem Alexander
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Time: 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Session code AP.1
Realising sustainable value chain
Sustainability Certification Pathways for Emerging Low iLUC Feedstocks: Policy and Certification Insights from the CARINA Project
Short Introductive summary
The CARINA project integrates oil-seed crops into diversified farming systems to supply low iLUC (indirect Land Use Change)-risk feedstocks for the circular bioeconomy. Innovative cropping strategies, enable biomass production without displacing food crops. Camelina and carinata offer promising low indirect land-use change (iLUC) potential but require coherent governance, certification, and policy support to scale sustainably. This abstract presents the work led by RSB on sustainability certification and ex-ante policy impact assessment, focusing on low iLUC feedstocks such as camelina and carinata. The work contributes to the development of robust Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) frameworks and explores the integration of carbon farming and sustainable carbon cycles into certification systems.
Presenter
Blanca DE ULIBARRI
RSB, Sustainability Dpt., SWITZERLAND
Presenter's biography
Blanca de Ulibarri is R&D Project Lead at RSB with 12+ years’ experience in bioenergy, LCA and circular economy. She leads Horizon projects at RSB and works to advance EU sustainability, certification and the bioeconomy transition.
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Co-authors:
E. Entrena, RSB, Chatelaine, SWITZERLAND
Session reference: AP.1.3