Following on from the last AAB conference held on this topic in 2001, this conference will provide an opportunity
to gain a progress update in this rapidly developing sector where there have been significant policy and technology developments in the interim. Significantly, there have been moves to large-scale commercialisation of processes for conversion of biomass to energy in response to policy actions generated to deliver both the EU’s and the UK Governments objectives for development of renewable energy sources as a means of both reducing green house gas emissions and increasing fuel security.

This conference will provide academics, policy makers, NGO’s, environmental organisations and industry
interests with an opportunity to hear about the research, policies and issues affecting developments in use of
conventional and perennial crops for energy and transport fuels, how productivity and efficiency might be
improved, the wider environmental impacts associated with expansion of energy crops, how such impacts might
be reduced and how different approaches or feedstocks compare. In addition, issues associated with the use of
biomass in next generation technologies and other added value uses for biomass will be discussed.