Resolving Responsibilities, clarifying criteria: Sustainability certification under the EU Renewable Energies Directive Presentation by Martina Gaebler, GIZ 23 February 2012- Kiev Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 1 1
Content EU s Renewable Energies targets and its request for sustainable feedstock What are the sustainability criteria? Certification as a tool to prove compliance with sustainability criteria What certification schemes can be used under the RED? Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 2 2
EU aims to increase consumption of renewable energies 20% renenewable energies in the national energy mixes by 2020 10% renewable energies in the transport sector by 2020 Legal basis: Directive 2009/28/EC of 23 April 2009 (Renewable Energies Directive, RED) Biofuels are part of the solution Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 3 3
EU biofuels market potentials for Ukrainian feedstocks EU market: No biofuel selfsufficiency Imports needed Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre (2011): EU renewable energy targets in 2020: Analysis of scenarios for transport Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 4 4
Realising export potentials to EU bioenergy market Liquid biofuels must meet sustainability criteria in order to be counted towards these targets and receive financial support (EU Renewable Energy Directive RED) Biofuel feedstock produced in Ukraine are only attractive for the EU market if producers can prove compliance with the EU sustainability criteria Compliance can be proven by being certified under a recognised biomass certification scheme Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 5 5
Why sustainability criteria? Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 6 6
Sustainability criteria for biofuels RED compliance criteria: Mitigate climate change 35% (50%) green house gas savings compared fossil fuels Land conversion Feedstock not produced on protected areas, primary forests, highly biodiverse grasslands, land with high carbon stocks or peat land (cut off Jan 2008) Trace sustainable biofuels Traceability from production to consumption (mass balance) RED reporting criteria (compliance mandatory in some schemes) Protect t social rights Respect of ILO Core Labour Norms, land rights Protect the environment Protection of water, soil and air quality and quantity It s about improving management practices Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 7 7
How to proove compliance with sustainability criteria? certification schemes as a tool to show compliance Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 8 8
What is certification? Certification is used to make a claim claim compliance with EU RED sustainability criteria Certification offers a guarantee of quality or way of production guarantee that biofuel was produced in an environmentally responsible manner Certification assures credibility through control by an independent system or authority Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 9 9
What are certification schemes? Documents that tell you what to do and what not to do in your enterprise Documents that t tell the auditor how to carry out the audit Accreditation body ensures that all audit firms operate according to the audit standard. Ensures that audit results are credible and comparable Standards - Compliance requirements - Audit firm comes to your enterprise and checks that you respect the rules set in the standard and awards the certificate, if positive Accreditation - Quality control Certification - Guarantee system - Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 10 10
Different certificates for different parts of the value chain Production pathway Primary production Trade Processing Blending Chain of Custody Documentation Production Standard d Chain of Custody Standard d Chain of Custody Standard d Chain of Cusotdy Standard d Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traceability Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 11 11
Who are the certification schemes under RED? Type A: Multi-stakeholder initiatives, e.g. Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), International ti Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), NTA 8080, etc. Type B: Private sector initiatives that have developed a scheme for the sector, e.g. REDcert (Germany), 2BSvs (France) Type C: Companies that have developed certification schemes that are only applicable in their respective business, e.g. Abengoa Bioenergía, Greenergy All schemes must be officially recognised by the EU Commission or an EU Member State Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 12 12
Recognition of certification schemes Automatically recognize Applies for recognition EU Renewable Energy Directive recognizes (EU wide authorisation) Certification System A Member State 1 National legislation Can recognize (national authorisation) Will not automatically recognise systems recognised only by MS Applies for recognition Certification System B Member State 2 National legislation Can automatically recognise systems recognised by other MS Chose CS to show compliance Biofuels Supply Chain Operators Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 13 13
Overview of biomass certification schemes System Feestock scope EU Recogni tion German Recognit ion Collabor Company Gov. Regional ative Scheme Initiative i i scope Abengoa System All global Biograce** All pending ( ) global Companies can chose between a variety of recognised schemes International schemes open for any company Company specific schemes Schemes with particular focus (feedstock, regional) Schemes covering bionergy only, schemes covering all kinds of production pathways of a feedstock All Bonsucro* Sugar cane global Greenergy* Sugar cane Brazil ISCC All global NTA All pending global Neste Oil Palm Oil (?) pending? REDcert All pending EU+Ukraine RSB All global RSPO Palm Oil pending global RTRS Soy All outside EU 2BSvs And about 15 more *The Scheme is not recognized for Article 17(3)(c) on highly biodiverse grasslands **partial scheme for GHG calcualtions Global Relevant for Ukraine Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 14 14
Who chooses the certification scheme? Obligated companies in the EU Member States and their chain operators can use any certification scheme recognised by the EU or by the respective MS In practice, the decision on which certification scheme to use is usually made by the end of the chain (e.g. trader, oil company). All operators belonging to the biofuels supply chain of the obligated company have to comply with the requirements of the chosen certification scheme Guidance on how to decide on a scheme is provided by NL Agency in its Guidance on selection of certification schemes (http://www.agentschapnl.nl/nieuws/guidance-selection-certification-schemes ) Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 15 15
Thank you Спасибо Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 16 16
Contact the Project Team GIZ Martina Gaebler martina.gaebler@giz.de Phone: +49 619679-6501 IER Yuliya Ogarenko ogarenko@ier.kiev.ua Phone: +38 (044)2786342 Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 17 17
Standard Documents - Examples Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 18 18
Certificates - Examples Name of certification body Name of certified company Logo of certification scheme Standard against which the company was certifiied Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine 24.02.2012 Page Seite 19 19