PROFORBIOMED
The Department of Nature Protection of ISPRA participates to the PROFORBIOMED project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Commission, within the program MED "Improving of the energy efficiency and promotion of renewable energy sources".
The PROFORBIOMED aims to promote the use of biomass as a renewable source of energy, through the development of an integrated strategy for sustainable use of forest biomass in the Mediterranean area . Within the consortium, involving 18 institutions, the Department of Nature Protection of ISPRA has the duty to develop actions relating to the monitoring of the impact that the use of forest biomass (including both harvesting intensity and collection of forest residues) and plantation wood energy (for example, the use of invasive taxa) can have on the natural biocenosis.
The project was presented for the first time in Italy during the International Conference RomaForest2011 and in October 2011, the Department of Nature Protection has initiated the project monitoring, in collaboration with other institutions and organizations
Project plan
Through this project, the promotion of the sustainable use of forest bioenergy in the Mediterranean area must be developed through innovation, not only technological but also legal factors.
The project has a multi-sectoral approaches and involves collaboration between public and private actors at different levels, from the European level to the local level. It also provides for the implementation of various activities divided into five policy areas: industry, energy, forestry, agriculture and environment.
The project will develop several pilot-experiences of 13 subject areas, aimed at strengthening cooperation between the parties involved and to provide tools for demonstration and transfer of know-how.
State of progress of the project
Structural diversity of forests in Lazio
Promotion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin
Review of existing methods for carbon accounting
The upfront carbon debt of bioenergy
Improved methods for carbon accounting for bioenergy
Setting up of integrated strategies for the development of Renewable energies
Assessing the bioenergy potential of forest and out of forest in Latium
Valsassina, Conference 14/11/2014
The last 14 November 2014 was held in Barzio (LC), in the Mountain Community Valsassina Valvarrone Val D’Esino Riviera, the conference “Wood, Energy and territory. The actions of PROFORBIOMED Project to support local industry”, organized in the whole of the EU PROFORBIOMED project together with FLA-Fondazione Lombardia Ambiente and Mountain Community.The conference aimed to develop a network between stakeholders that are involved in improving the use and of wood from forestry for energetic scope. During the event was also presented the video documentary “ Forest, wood, energy “ produced by ISPRA and FLA that tell the experiences of different actors involved in the territory of Valsassina
Viterbo, Conference 5/11/2014 and 19/11/2014
A cluster for the bioenergy. An oppurtunity for Viterbo territory?
Within the project PROFORMBIOMED, ISPRA has promoted the development of the bioenergy in the territory around Viterbo organizing meeting at the Viterbo Municipality to analyze the status of art and the possibile innovations in this sector.