Bioenergy and Trade

Criteria for assessing environmental, economic, and social aspects of biofuels in developing countries

Preliminary work on the potential of energy crops in developing countries (DCs) indicates an order of magnitude similar to the total transport fuel use of the EU-25 and the USA.If and to what extent this ...

Feb 2005
Markets and policies in Western and Eastern European countries

This report, elaborated for VIEWLS – CLEAR VIEWS on CLEAN FUELS (a European Commission-supported project), describes the development of the European biofuels market. It identifies the current political and economic conditions in the examined countries ...

Jan 2005
Gleneagles plan of action - climate change, clean energy and sustainable development

Developed at Gleneagles 2005, this document outlines key commitments of the G8 countries on climate change, clean energy and sustainable development issues, including: Transforming the way we use energy;Powering a cleaner future;Promoting research and development;Financing the ...

Jan 2005
Policy initiative schemes and benefits of biofuel promotion in Germany - Current status of legislation and production

This presentation was delivered by Mr. Bockey on the occasion of the “Conference on biofuels. Challenges for Asian future”, that took place in the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, on 30 and 31 August ...

Aug 2004
Techno-economic assessment of biofuel production in the European Union

In regard to the short and middle term options, biofuels seem to have an important role in the European Union with increasing production levels during the last years. Moreover, at the end of 2003, a ...

Aug 2004
Biofuel for transport

While biofuels production costs are fairly easy to measure, the benefits are difficult to quantify. But this does not necessarily mean that the benefits are not substantial. Increasing the use of biofuels can improve energy ...

Apr 2004
Carbon emission and mitigation cost comparisons between fossil fuel, nuclear and renewable energy resources for electricity generation

This study was conducted to compare the electricity generation costs of a number of current commercial technologies with technologies expected to become commercially available within the coming decade or so. The amount of greenhouse gas ...

Apr 2003
A guide to emissions trading

Since its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol—as one of three market-based mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—the prospect of an international emissions trading system has attracted wide interest among policy makers, industrialists and others.In ...

Feb 2003
The energy balance of corn ethanol: an update

Ethanol production in the United States grew from just a few million gallons in the mid-1970s to over 1.7 billion gallons in 2001, spurred by national energy security concerns, new Federal gasoline standards, and government ...

Jul 2002
Macroeconomic evaluation of rape cultivation for biodiesel production in Germany

Biodiesel has been produced for the German market since 1993. The raw material is rapeseed oil that is chemically transesterified. As with other renewable energy sources (RES), the cultivation of RES rape for biodiesel production ...

Mar 2002
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