Biofuels for Transportation

Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?

This document was prepared at the initiative of the Chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development at the OECDBiofuels have been championed as an energy source that can increase security of supply, reduce vehicle ...

Sep 2007
Considering trade policies for liquid biofuels

Bioenergy is playing an increasingly important role as an alternative and renewable source of energy. Bioenergy includes solid biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels. Combustion of biomass residues for heat and power generation is commercially viable ...

Sep 2007
Biofuels – At what cost? (Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in selected OECD countries)

This paper provides an overview of policy measures currently applied to support the production and consumption of biofuels. It also discusses how the different policies supportive of biofuels interact with broader agricultural, energy, and environmental ...

Sep 2007
IEA Bioenergy Annual Report 2006

Renewable energy is of growing importance in responding to concerns over the environment and security of energy supply. Biomass is unique in providing the only renewable source of fixed carbon, which is an essential ingredient ...

Jul 2007
The rush to ethanol: not all biofuels are created equal - Analysis and recommendations for U.S. biofuels policy

Corn-based ethanol has emerged as a leading contender to reduce dependence on fossil fuel–based gasoline. At first glance, corn-based ethanol seems simple, even patriotic: take the sugar from corn that U.S. farmers grow, and ferment ...

Jul 2007
Biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction

This paper addresses the role of biofuels in development and poverty reduction. For example, it has been argued that:energy crops are beginning a green revolution in Brazil;a bioproduct-based agro-revolution can offer a new development paradigm;biofuels ...

Jun 2007
Liquid biofuels in transport: conclusions and recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

As a result of renewed and growing interest in biofuels as a renewable energy source to substitute petroleum-derived products in the transport sector, the GEF received a number of project proposals to support biofuels in ...

May 2007
UK biomass strategy

This strategy brings together current government policies on biomass for industry, energy and transport and provides a framework for the development of biomass as a whole. It recognises that the EU and wider international policies ...

May 2007
New and emerging issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity - Biodiversity and liquid biofuel production

The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) is mandated to identify new and emerging issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. In a meeting held by teleconference on 22 ...

Apr 2007
Small-scale production and use of liquid biofuels in Sub-Saharan Africa: perspectives for sustainable development

This background paper focuses on the impact of biofuels for small-scale development and use by households, farmers, communities, etc. Its emphasis is on the sustainable development of biofuels to increase modern energy access to these ...

Apr 2007
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