Room: Poster Area
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Session code 2BV.7
Biomass strategies and policies
An Approach for An Allocation of Sustainable Biomass Use for Materials And Energy in Europe
Short Introductive summary
The presented approach assessesthe viability and practicality of implementing a merit-order for biomass utilisation, with the objective of contributing to the achievement of EU climate neutrality targets. This includes at first developing a methodology for the allocation of biomass use and assessing its relevance and limitations. Second, the Agora biomass scenario was analysed against the elaborated merit-order and further refined, taking into account land use, climate change mitigation and environmental resilience. These two main steps resulted in a general guidance for the allocation of biomass utilisation across sectors. Broadly speaking, the results support the primacy of biomass for material over energy applications while the Agora scenario introduces the production of ligneous feedstocks on arable land . The energy and material transition requires political choices to be made in view of the limited biomass available and the different policy objectives that need to be reconciled.
Presenter
Theresa SCHLAMP
IFEU-Institut Heidelberg, Ressources, GERMANY
Presenter's biography
Theresa Schlamp, PhD Biology (Heidelberg University), is a biomass LCA researcher at ifeu gGmbH since 2023. She specializes in GHG balances and sustainability assessments of chemicals, agrofuels and UCO-based biofuels, linking science, industry, and policy for the circular bioeconomy.
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Co-authors:
T. Schlamp, IFEU-Institut Heidelberg, GERMANY
S. Köppen, IFEU-Institut Heidelberg, GERMANY
N. Azais, Agora Energiewende, Brussels, BELGIUM
Session reference: 2BV.7.5