Dear colleague,   As convener of the session ERE 1.7 " Aspects of sustainable biomass utilization for energy and industrial raw materials" at the General Assembly 2013 of the European Geosciences Union, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for an oral/poster presentation. After the great success of last year's session it was decided to host our session again. This year we can offer an attractive possibility to publish your extended abstract in the Elsevier Journal "Energy Procedia" (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-procedia). You may find more details about the session here: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11641. Please remember the abstract submission deadline: 09.01.2013. We kindly ask you to share this information with your colleagues.   Merry Christmas and a happy new year ! The conveners Viktor Bruckman, Eduard Hochbichler, Bojana Veselinovic, and Vanessa Parravicini Dipl.-Ing.  Dr. Viktor Bruckman Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies (KIOES) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Bäckerstraße 5, 1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA Postal Address: Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna  Telephone: +43 1 51581 3200  Fax: +43 1 51581 3203  Mobile: +43 664 6127259 Email: viktor.bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/