Biofuels linking support to performance

Biofuels received USD 15 billion in subsidies in OECD Member countries in 2007, but did they deliver benefits in terms of climate change or oil security? Present policies make no link between support for biofuels and their environmental performance, and biofuels do not all perform equally well. In f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: International Transport Forum.
Corporate Authors: International Transport Forum (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Transport Research Centre
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Pub c2008.
Series:Round table (Transport Research Centre) ; 138.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705690806719
Table of Contents:
  • The environmental certification of biofuels
  • The performance of Brazilian biofuels
  • Subsidies: the distorted economics of biofuels
  • Sustainable biofuels for the transport sector
  • Energy and greenhouse impacts of biofuels
  • Summary of discussions.