Selected Papers from the 32nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE 2024)

Dear Colleagues,

The European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Conference (EUBCE) has for many years been one of the world’s leading R&D conferences, and over the last decade, it has increasingly recognized the growing industrial achievements of the biomass sector and the continuing challenges facing policymakers across the world. The EUBCE has grown to become a leading platform for the collection, exchange, and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of biomass, as well as its utilisation in industry to replace fossil fuel-derived energy and products and in policy making to mitigate climate change.

The 32nd EUBCE, held in Marseille, France, in June 2024, addressed the key topic of building a circular economy by integrating biomass production, its conversion to bioliquids and biofuels for heat and electricity, and transport and bio-based products, covering all aspects of each value chain, ranging from supply and logistics to conversion technologies, from the industrial application of research results in industry to impacts on the environment, and from market and trade aspects to policy strategies, considering the role of biomass as a component of integrated energy systems.

Ambitious targets have been set over the last decade and a half at the political level across the world; at the same time, science and industry have been making substantial progress in the production and utilisation of biomass for conversion into a wide range of energy and non-energy products, aiming to replace equivalent energy and non-energy products derived from fossil fuels. The key aim is to achieve “net zero” by 2050, or sooner, to halt the steady increase in the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, before reducing fossil fuel-derived emissions so that climate change impacts can be reduced. Biomass will play an important role in the clean energy transition, in line with the commitments made in the COP Paris Agreement.

This Special Issue of Energies contains papers presented and discussed at the 32nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Conference (EUBCE). From the outset, this Special Issue’s aim has been to include papers representing all topics covered by the EUBCE, from biomass production, harvesting, storage, transport, and conversion into energy carriers, a range of bioproducts, and bioenergy to and recycling residues to ensure soil quality for growing future biomass crops, all within a growing and maturing circular economy that will play a key role in mitigating climate change.

Dr. David Baxter
Prof. Dr. Solange I. Mussatto
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.