Ceylon Chamber supports Sustainable Energy Authority to promote ‘Biomass Energy Production and Modern Bio Technologies’
View(s):Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the country’s premier business chamber will conduct a seminar on Sustainable Biomass Energy Production and Modern Bio Technologies in a bid to help the government’s drive towards increasing the production of biomass based energy sources in the Island,a media release issued by the CCC said. The seminar, which will be held during the second week of February, 2016 at the Auditorium of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, will focus on educating the stakeholders on an ongoing GEF (Global Environment Facility) Funded project which is being implemented by the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, with the support of the FAO and UNDP.
The project aims to promote ‘Sustainable Biomass Energy Production and Modern Bio-Energy Technologies’ with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuel for thermal energy generation in Sri Lanka’s industrial sector.The ongoing GEF funded project, authorities expect will help remove barriers to the realization of sustainable biomass plantation, increase the market share of biomass energy generation mix and adoption of improved biomass-based energy technologies in Sri Lanka. It focuses on four key areas such as, ‘Policy-institutional support for effective implementation’; ‘Barrier removal for sustainable fuel wood production,’ ‘Enabling environment for fuel wood suppliers’; and also ‘Wood-based energy technology development’.