The Irish government’s COFORD Council for Forest Research and Development has published a paper that recommends future policies to support an expanded role of forest-based biomass. The paper, entitled “Forest Based Biomass and Modern Bioenergy, Moving to Net Zero“, complements and rounds out an earlier series of COFORD statements on the role of forests and forest products in climate change mitigation. …It is essential to have an evidence base around supply, costs, sustainability and technical feasibility of bioenergy to inform national policies and the climate action plan processes, added the document. One recommendation was that a national bioenergy strategy be developed to set out the general aims for bioenergy use into the future, and a level of ambition for deployment in the context of climate and energy goals, security of energy supply, sustainability and balanced regional development.