Bioenergy and Sustainability

Biofuels and food security: risks and opportunities

This comprehensive overview of the main aspects of the interrelation between food and biofuels synthesizes previous research on the subject. It addresses the causality between biofuels production, global crop commodity prices and eventual implications for ...

Aug 2013
Analysing the effect of biofuel expansion on land use in major producing countries

Existing estimates on the potential impacts of biofuel production are often based on projections made with models that have limited ability to incorporate changes in land use (notably cropping intensity). This paper studies biofuel expansion ...

Jul 2013
Guidance Manual Smallholder Certification in Biomass Supply Chains

The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance to companies and others, such as NGO‘s, governments and standard certification/verification organizations, that wish to work with certified smallholders in biomass supply chains. The manual is ...

Jun 2013
Smallholder certification in biomass supply chains. Challenges and strategies

As a result of an increasing interest in biomass as an alternative to the use of non-renewable fossil fuel resources, agricultural production of biomass has become a key topic in many boardrooms. This results in ...

Jun 2013
EU bioenergy potential from a resource efficiency perspective

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has produced a series of reports estimating the European Union's bioenergy potential in an environmental perspective and analysing its most efficient use to support greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation (EEA,2006, 2007, ...

Jun 2013
Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012

A number of companies around the world pursue projects to develop and deploy advanced technologies for the production of biofuels. Plenty of options are available, e.g. on which feedstock to use, how to pretreat it ...

Mar 2013
Sustainability Certification in the Biofuel Sector

The European Union (EU) and the United States have adopted aggressive programs to promote the greater use of biofuels. One of the goals is to reduce carbon emissions by replacing gasoline with low carbon fuels. ...

Mar 2013
Poor people's energy outlook 2013

The theme for PPEO 2013, the third in the series, is energy for community services: health, education, public institutions, and infrastructure. The report has been informed and guided by discussions with people in Bolivia, Bangladesh, ...

Mar 2013
Biofuels – what role in the future energy mix? Facts, trends and perspectives

The use of biofuels grew strongly in Germany between 2004 and 2007, but its share has been stagnating since then, at between 5.5-6%. Biodiesel made from rape led the way, ahead of ethanol made from ...

Oct 2012
RSB Version 1.0. Food security guidelines

The Energy Centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is coordinating a multi-stakeholder effort, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), to develop international standards for sustainable biofuels production and processing and ...

Sep 2012
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