ABSTRACT
Sustainable bioenergy has been recognized as a valuable energy alternative, fostering socioeconomic development and allowing to deal with climate change and environmental concerns. This chapter aims to propose a pathway to support policymakers in the assessment process of deploying sustainable bioenergy systems or evaluating existing ones, particularly for developing countries. It then sets the problem of evaluating the feasibility of inherently complex bioenergy systems and, in some cases, with lack of data and information, as well as the frequent wrong perception about bioenergy impacts. The chapter introduces the Sustainable and Integrated Bioenergy Assessment for Latin America and Africa (SIByl-LACAf) framework, the essentials of the selected methods and the steps in following such approach. The SIByl-LACAf approach is developed in seven steps: definition of objectives, recognizing the complexity of data, addressing the complexity, applying indicators, analysis of feasibility, analysis of acceptability, and taking decision.
