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RBCN history
 RBCN
started in 2009 as an informal network initiative with financial support of
the Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI). The first meeting was then kicked
off by Ruud Lubbers, former prime minister of The Netherlands and chairman
of the RCI Council. RCI aims to achieve a fifty per cent reduction of CO2
emissions, to adapt to climate change and to promote the economy in the
Rotterdam region. Pieter van Essen, project director Port for RCI: “We have
supported RBCN from the start as an initiative that can make important
contributions to the strengthening of Rotterdam as biomass mainport. We
support the establishment of RBCN as an independent organization and is
living proof for its success. We will certainly remain working closely
together with RBCN in the future”.
With the establishment of the Foundation RBCN obtains an
independent status from 2011. The first RBCN board consists of five
representatives from RWE/Essent, Eneco, EBS Bulk Services, CKade and BFP International. Chairman of the Foundation is Peter Paul Schouwenberg: ”The
establishment of the RBCN Foundation is important for organizing the
industry that devotes itself to the use of renewable biomass for a
sustainable energy supply and production of biomaterials. RBCN wants to be a
recognizable and acknowledged business platform delivering valuable
contributions in realizing the opportunities for a sustainable society”.
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