The RSB Services Foundation is a US-based non-profit organization to implement the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels’ sustainability standard. The RSB Services Foundation works with companies who wish to become certified and third party verifiers (i.e. Certification Bodies) to maintain the tools and internal systems for the RSB certification process.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) is an international bioenergy standard developed and maintained by the Energy Center at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2006 the RSB has worked with thousands of organizations and individuals throughout the world to develop a global bioenergy standard with widespread recognition.

The RSB standard describes the requirements that entities along the biofuel supply chain must follow to ensure that biofuels deliver on their promise of sustainability by benefitting energy security and rural development, protecting natural resources and human rights and offering greenhouse gas emissions reductions as compared to fossil fuels.

RSB certification has been recognized by the European Commission as meeting the EU Renewable Energy Directive sustainability criteria.

RSB Services and AB Training have launched the RSB Training Program for Auditors and Lead Auditors. The training program combines a series of online courses with a short training in a face-to-face setting to give RSB auditors the  knowledge and practical skills to audit the RSB requirements.

The first two face-to-face training sessions will take place on June 25-27, 2012 in Europe and on July 11-13, 2012 in Washington D.C.

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