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Rapid development of biofuels during last decades has induced strong concerns about possible drawbacks such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, excessive use of water or scarce resources. in its proposal of 31st January 2007 for a Directive amending Directive 98/70/EC, ...

Policies for climate change mitigation are increasingly being informed by the results of greenhouse gas life cycle assessments (GHG-LCAs) of alternative energy carriers and delivery pathways. GHG-LCAs are of particular relevance to the biofuel sector because, within the EU, it ...

This paper present the comments of the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the EU and of the General Confederation of Agricultural Co-operatives in the EU to the Annex VII of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the ...

Biofuels displace fossil fuels, mainly oil, in the transport sector. Although biofuels have roughly the same tailpipe carbon emissions as fossil fuels, this carbon was previously absorbed from the atmosphere when the biofuel feedstock was grown. Net carbon emissions do ...

This study implements a new methodology developed by the JRC IES and IE for estimating changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil and above- and below-ground biomass resulting from global land use changes caused by the production of biofuels.The ...

This publication provides the summary and conclusions from the workshop ‘Bioenergy – The Impact of Indirect Land Use Change’, held in conjunction with the meeting of the Executive Committee of IEA Bioenergy in Rotterdam on May 2009.The purpose of the ...

The scope of this background paper for the EEA Expert meeting “Life-Cycle Assessment Methodologies for Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of bioenergy: Beyond biofuels” held in Copenhagen on June 10, 2008 is to present general issues and key questions regarding methodological and data ...

This report provides an overview of the key problems and perspectives toward sustainable production and use of biofuels. The Biofuels Working Group of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management aims to improve the analytical basis for decision making towards ...

Increased demand for biofuels is expected to produce changes in the present land-use configuration. Furthermore there is a growing concern about the effect of land-use change on biodiversity, food supply, soil and water quality. Biofuels production on current land and ...

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is commonly employed to assess the performances of the different uses of biomass. The range of LCA results is however very wide and prevents from having reliable and accurate results for policymaking. In order ...

The primary purpose of this report is to consider a more complete set of information now available related to the life-cycle emissions for corn-based ethanol and based on this information, assess its current (i.e., in 2014) GHG emissions profile.This report ...