Enabling truly sustainable Bioenergy production is an important step towards a sustainable society. Participating in this great challenge is very exciting.

It is fascinating to find those little flaws in Bioenergy pathways that make them less sustainable than you would think at first glance. Policy makers need this support to avoid them.

When you look at all these different sustainability criteria you have no idea which pathway is the most sustainable one. Multi Criteria Decision Analysis offers good tools to solve this problem.

Multi Criteria Decision Analysis is particularly helpful in understanding and judging complex decision problems such as comprehensive sustainability assessment of bioenergy pathways.

Biomass is the most versatile renewable energy source. It can help to cope with increasingly scarce fossil resources.

Competing uses for biomass, as well as the associated transportation distances have to be taken into account when judging the feasibility of bioenergy concepts.

The sustainable use of biomass is a country- or region-specific balancing act between justified economic, social and environmental interests.

Increasing (biomass) resource scarcity triggers societies and policy makers to carefully review the rationality of the resource allocation mechanisms of market systems.

The EUs 20/20/20 targets and ambitions are not always in line with commonly accepted principles on the cascading of biomass.

There is a wide-array of (un)intended and (un)known side-effects of policy instruments on the real sustainability performance of biomass resource use.

What to do, and what not to do with ‘our’ (scarce) biomass, that is the question.