During the EU-India Energy Panel on 1 December 2021, it was agreed by both sides to establish the EU-India Expert Stakeholder Group on Advanced Biofuels (SGAB) as activity 42 of the EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership Work Programme. The SGAB discussed priority topics for enhanced EU-India cooperation in view of addressing barriers for further deployment of advanced biofuels, promoting innovation, ensuring feedstock supply and identify research areas of mutual interest. The SGAB offers a framework to work on deliverables in the context of EU-India Conferences on Advanced Biofuels. The key objective of such a working group was to exchange information and work together to promote sustainable advanced biofuels in both India and the EU in support of national and EU policies. The kick-off meeting took place in Bengaluru on 7 February 2023. The work of the SGAB was completed after 19 months in September 2024.
Reports from the Actions
The SGAB originally consisted of 16 members, 8 each from Europe and India. It is managed by 2 Co-Chairs, MM Kyriakos
Maniatis (Independent Consultant, former EC officer) and S. Bharathan (Director Refineries of Hindustan Petroleum).
At the kick-off the experts identified 8 Actions which needed to be addressed as a first step to provide clarity of
the present situation not only in the EU and India but globally. Furthermore, the co-chairs and the experts
discussed the operational modalities and identified the experts to work on the different tasks and the next
meetings. The experts delivered reports for all 8 Actions agreed at the kick-off meeting. Two actions on technology
and research needs were merged since a combined report offers a better overview.
View Kick-off meeting
EU-India SGAB Action 0 Lexicon View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 1 Call for proposals View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 2 Calculation of GHG emissions View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 3 Outreach & Training View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 4 Diversity and complementarity of options to manage the transition View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 5 Lipids and biomass sypply chains View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 6 Enhanced Overview of Advanced Biofuels and e-Fuels View Report
EU-India SGAB Action 7 Technology & Research Agenda View Report
Presentations given during the webinars organised by the SGAB
Action 3 on “Outreach and
Training” consisted of webinars organised by some of the SGAB experts with invited speakers. The webinars were
open to all stakeholders. The presentations given during the SGAB webinars are uploaded here. Other SGAB related
presentation used during some of the meetings are also uploaded here.
