The Association aims to demonstrate the huge contribution the biogas and anaerobic digestion (AD) industries make to the goals and targets set by the United Nations and the global climate change agreement signed at the UNFCCC COP21 last year, and to facilitate the adoption of these technologies gloablly..
David Newman, president of WBA, said: "I am delighted to see this global perspective from the biogas industry. The potential to provide energy security by transforming the millions of tonnes of organic wastes which today are largely unused, is a huge potential indeed.
"We are part of the Circular Economy, recovering energy and nutrients otherwise lost. We are part of the Bio Economy, delivering feedstocks to potential new industries, through Green Chemistry. We are part of the emancipation of communities detached from electric and gas grids, giving them energy autonomy. We are an ingredient of sustainability, delivering nutrients and renewable energy to the planet. And we have no time to lose to make this happen on a global scale.”
Companies, associations, universities, professionals and other organisations are invited to be a part of the global community demonstrating and delivering the value that anaerobic digestion and biogas contribute across all sectors by:
- reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by around 20%
- delivering flexible, storable baseload green gas
- fuelling HGVs, buses, tractors and other vehicles
- reducing and recycling food waste
- recycling sewage and waste water
- returning carbon to the farm
- keeping farmers farming sustainably
- restoring our depleted soils
- providing energy and biofertiliser to communities and villages in developing countries
- reducing poverty and hunger