Bioenergy and Climate Change

The possible competition for land makes it impossible to produce enough first generation biofuel to offset a large percentage of the total fuel consumption for transportation. As opposed to land-based biofuels produced from...

The Renewable Energy Directive (as far as biofuels and bioliquids are concerned) and the Fuel Quality Directive (as far as biofuels are concerned) require the Commission to submit to Parliament and Council a report with two...

This paper reviews recent developments in biofuel markets and their economic, social and environmental impacts. Several countries have introduced mandates and targets for biofuel expansion. Production, international trade and...

The present report focuses on net GHG emission reduction in the transport sector.The EU RED biofuels target for 2020 is to have 10% of fuel demand in EU road transport covered by biofuels. This translates to a potential amount of...

This report summarizes the future scenarios of bioenergy demand by 2020 and the potential bioenergy production, taking into account different fuel mixes. It discusses and gives guidance to assess the real carbon neutrality (CN)...

This paper arises from a meeting convened by the LSE in February 2010 to consider the implications of developments in climate policy in late 2009. The Hartwell meeting was a private meeting, held under the Chatham House Rule. It...

At the global level, the energy system – supply, transformation, delivery and use – is the dominant contributor to climate change, representing around 60 per cent of total current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Current patterns...

The IDB is developing a Climate Change Strategy (CCS) to be submitted for approval bythe Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) Executive Board in 2010. The objective of the CCS is to serve as a guiding instrument for scaling...

This publication provides the summary and conclusions from the workshop ‘Algae – The Future for Bioenergy?’ held in conjunction with the meeting of the Executive Committee of IEA Bioenergy in Liege, Belgium on 1 October 2009.The...

Aside from questions of economics (tensions on agricultural markets) and ethical issues (good agricultural resource use), biofuels are accused of not delivering the advantageous balances imputed to them early on, in terms of...