Legal Harvesting, Sustainable Sourcing and Cascaded Use of Wood for Bioenergy: Their Coverage through Existing Certification Frameworks for Sustainable Forest Management

Legal Harvesting, Sustainable Sourcing and Cascaded Use of Wood for Bioenergy: Their Coverage through Existing Certification Frameworks for Sustainable Forest Management

The first objective of this paper was to provide an inventory of developments of certification schemes for sustainable biomass production, following recent EU legislation (both formalized and under development). One main pillar is the EU Timber Regulation for legal harvesting; a second one is the EU...

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Main Authors: Richard Sikkema, Martin Junginger, Jinke van Dam, Gerben Stegeman, David Durrant, Andre Faaij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
sustainable forest management (SFM)
certification
chain-of-custody (COC)
solid biomass
bio-energy
North America
Europe
Renewable Energy Directive (RED)
EU Timber Regulation (EUTR)
Waste Directive
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/5/9/2163

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