Room: Poster Area
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Session code 2BV.7
Biomass strategies and policies
Sustainable Fuel Classification: A Framework for Global Alignment
Short Introductive summary
Tthe current regulatory framework worldwide for sustainable and advanced fuels is often defined by rigid classifications based on feedstock type or technology generation. This approach results in the inconsistent treatment of sustainable fuel pathways among different regions of the world, particularly bioenergy, which ultimately stifles the global energy transition. The lack of harmonized criteria for fuel classification and evaluation hinders the deployment of sustainable fuels, creating investment risks’ perception, market distortions and unbalanced competition and potential trade barriers. This document provides a critical assessment of existing classification frameworks and, considering long-term decarbonization objectives, explores how Carbon Intensity (CI) could serve as a unifying reference metric. This metric would integrate other indirect risk variables impacting CI into a more transparent and comparable classification system. Building on previous IEA efforts, the document proposes a globally consistent framework agnostic to feedstock and technology.
Presenter
David CHIARAMONTI
Politecnico di Torino, Chair, Biofuture Initiative, DENERG Dpt., ITALY
Presenter's biography
David Chiaramonti teaches Bioenergy Conversion Technologies at the University of Florence, where he carries out research on thermochemical biomass conversion at CREAR. He chairs the Renewable Energy COnsortium for R&D of the University of Florence (RE-CORD)
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Co-authors:
M. Moreira, Agroicone, São Paulo - Piracicaba, BRAZIL
S. Arantes, Agroicone, São Paulo - Piracicaba, BRAZIL
A. Campos, Independent consultant, São Paulo - Piracicaba, BRAZIL
D. Chiaramonti, Biofuture Plataform, Turin, ITALY
Session reference: 2BV.7.27