The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) is an international initiative coordinated by the Energy Center at EPFL in Lausanne that brings together farmers, companies, non-governmental organizations, experts, governments, and inter-governmental agencies concerned with ensuring the sustainability of biofuels production and processing. 

• New!  Read the Summary Report of the June 2010 Steering Board meeting (23 July 2010)
• New! Read the RSB Annual Report (2009) (21 July 2010)

• The UK Renewable Fuel Agency published the results of the benchmark of the RSB against the RTFO Meta Standard and the RTFO Standard for Audit Quality. Benchmarking of Sustainability Standards and Certification Schemes. (16 July 2010)
  

• Special page for the RSB Pilot Projects! 09 June 2010
  

• Special pages for the GHG Expert Group and the Indirect Impacts Expert Group! 

• New! BioFuel for Thought, Issue 1 (August 2010)

• Complete set of RSB Standards. 

• Version One: View the Principles & Criteria, Indicators, Definitions and more. French,  Spanish and Swahili versions available!

• Summary of approaches to accounting for indirect impacts of biofuel production commissioned from the consulting firm Ecofys International BV.

• GHG accounting scheme of the RSB: Feasibility of a meta-methodology and ingredients for a strategy forward commissioned from E4Tech Sarl.