It is with great pleasure that the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) (www.irgc.org) invites you to the official launch of its most recent policy brief, “Risk governance guidelines for bioenergy policies”. The policy brief and the guidelines it contains are the result of a year-long project which has examined the opportunities and risks of bioenergy, identified deficits in the governance of those risks, and developed recommendations for improvements to the risk governance of bioenergy.

IRGC has concluded that bioenergy could contribute to three important global objectives: improving energy security, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and supporting sustainable rural development. However, bioenergy alone cannot achieve these objectives and IRGC has also concluded that a continuation of some current policies may, in fact, hinder progress towards meeting some or all of them in the long term.

IRGC has identified several substantial deficits in the current governance of the opportunities and risks of bioenergy, and proposes a number of recommendations for improving the assessment and the management of major risks related to an unsustainable development of bioenergy, and in particular liquid biofuels.

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