The European "Rejuvenate" project investigated the feasibility of a range of possible approaches to combining risk based land management (RBLM) with non-food crop land uses and organic matter reuse as appropriate. It developed a decision support tool to identify marginal land for biomass reuse opportunities in the UK, Germany and Sweden; assessed how verification of their performance might be carried out, and identified what requirements remain for future research, development and demonstration.

Speakers at the conference will be from the Rejuvenate team, Environment Agency, The Energy Crops Company, the BioRegen project, Ecosecurities Ltd, C-Cure Solutions (Forest Research and University of Surrey) and the Homes and Communities Agency. The conference will also be linked via web cast to speakers from the US Environmental Protection Agency. Talks will be on the kinds of products can be produced from biomass, the wider green remediation opportunity using renewables to pay for land management and reduce fossil fuel dependence; the opportunity for linkage between biomass re-use of land and initiatives for green remediation, sustainable construction and carbon neutral housing and pro's and con's for green remediation.

Rejuvenate includes partners from Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden and began in October 2008. It is funded, under the umbrella of an ERA-Net SNOWMAN , by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency (England), FORMAS (Sweden) and Bioclear BV (Netherlands). The EU ERA-Net SNOWMAN is a network of national funding organisations and administrations providing research funding for soil and groundwater bridging the gap between knowledge demand and supply (http://www.snowman-era.net). It is one of more than 70 ERA-Nets (European Research Area-Networks) funded by the EC's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

Click here to download the meeting report - available free for a limited period. (PDF 10.4mb)

Click here to visit the Rejuvenate project web page.

The Rejuvenate team are:
Bioclear BV The Netherlands
Dechema, Germany
r3 Environmental Technology Ltd, UK - project co-ordinator
Swedish Geotechnical Institute, Sweden

Related Links Links:
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