• As concerns mount over fuel-versus-food competition for crops, a Michigan State University ethanol expert says that cellulosic ethanol could render the debate moot. (mongabay.com)
  • He says that these "energy crops" can be grown on marginal lands not currently used for food of animal feed production. (mongabay.com)
  • Therefore, the amount of rice planted and harvested has nothing to do with land prices or a move to biofuel crops. (biofortified.org)
  • The European Union must overhaul its current bioenergy policy, which is based on getting fuel from plants, because the industry is linked to the eviction of thousands of people from their lands, out-competing food crops, and creating more not less pollution, says Oxfam. (oxfam.org)
  • It must end the use of biofuels produced from food or energy crops and food by-products, the anti-poverty organisation says. (oxfam.org)
  • Biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are currently produced from the products of conventional food crops such as the starch, sugar and oil feedstocks from crops that include wheat, maize, sugar cane, palm oil and oilseed rape. (wikipedia.org)
  • The prices of key agricultural commodities including as corn, wheat and vegetable oils will escalate sharply in response to EU biofuel policies, hitting food manufacturers and those who rely on crops as a sole food source the hardest. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Smart bio-fuel crops are those that ensure food security, contribute to energy security, provide environmental sustainability, tolerate the impacts of climate change on shortage of water and high temperatures, and increase livelihood options. (copperwiki.org)
  • However, MEPs excluded food and feed crop-based fuels and those derived from palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD), intermediate crops and palm or soy-derived distillates, a move welcomed by both European airlines and environmental NGOs. (greenairnews.com)
  • When it comes to selecting the right plant source for future cellulosic biofuel production, the solution won't be one-size-fits-all, and it certainly doesn't have to involve food and feed crops. (eurekalert.org)
  • The article, "Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels," discusses the sustainability of current and future crops that may be used to produce advanced biofuels with emerging technologies that use non-edible parts of plants. (eurekalert.org)
  • The diversity and geographic adaptability of crops available as potential biofuel feedstocks can be used to support ecosystem health throughout the world, the EBI researchers conclude. (eurekalert.org)
  • By focusing on the use of dedicated energy crops - rather than on repurposing food and feed crops - it should be possible to overcome many of the problematic constraints associated with our narrow dependence on a relatively small number of food crops and to develop agroecosystems for fuel production that are compatible with contemporary environmental goals," they write. (eurekalert.org)
  • In the Net Zero Scenario, the use of biofuels for transport rises significantly to 2030, with a much larger share produced from waste, residues and nonfood crops. (iea.org)
  • Advanced feedstock usage must also expand: biofuels produced from waste and residues and nonfood energy crops meet over 40% of total biofuel demand by 2030, up from around a 9% share in 2021. (iea.org)
  • Biden administration officials have deliberated for months over how to set 2022 targets that are high enough to encourage greater use of biofuels without stoking excessive demand for soybeans, corn and other crops used for food and livestock feed. (ttnews.com)
  • First-generation biofuels (also denoted as "conventional biofuels") are made from food crops grown on arable land. (wikipedia.org)
  • First-generation biofuels are derived from food crops like corn and sugar cane, second generation from inedible vegetation and agricultural waste and third-generation from algae. (kfor.com)
  • But when crops are grown explicitly to produce biofuels - such as making ethanol from corn, soybeans, sugar cane or palm - all the fertilizers and fossil fuels needed to grow, cultivate and process the fuel give it a much larger carbon footprint. (kfor.com)
  • And nearly all of the biofuel crops it produces are for export, anyway. (motherjones.com)
  • The EU's biofuels sector - including producers of renewable ethanol and biodiesel from crops, wastes, and residues - is well-placed to play a major role in these efforts. (politico.eu)
  • Sure, so-called 'first generation' biofuels (think corn-based ethanol) are somewhat inefficient and often suck up land that could be used for food crops, but as a whole, biofuels are a handy alternative to traditional petroleum-based fuels, right? (good.is)
  • Approximately 100 companies in the United States are working towards developing algae-based biofuels, and for good reason-algae can generate up to 300 times more oil per acre than conventional crops, it has a quick harvest cycle (as little as one day), and it can flourish in everything from seawater to wastewater. (good.is)
  • The European Parliament's compromise in capping the share of biofuels made from food crops at 6 per cent of the EU's energy demand in transport by 2020 is disappointing, Oxfam said today. (oxfam.org)
  • The European Parliament has voted today to cap the share of biofuels made from food crops at 6% of the EU's energy demand in transport by 2020. (oxfam.org)
  • Since 2004 biofuels from crops have almost doubled the rate of growth in global demand for grain and sugar and pushed up the yearly growth in demand for vegetable oil by around 40 percent. (grist.org)
  • Traditional biofuels predominantly use "food-based" feedstocks and are widely criticized for diverting edible crops to fuel production instead of food provision. (pall.com)
  • The issue is not limited to how much of each crop may be used for biofuels instead of food and feed, but how much planting area could be diverted from producing other crops to those used as feedstock for production of biofuels. (greencarcongress.com)
  • To date, food crops (corn, sugar, and vegetable oil) have been the primary source of biodiesels for transportation, but increased use of these fuels has created more problems than solutions: rising food prices and food price volatility, and accelerated expansion of agriculture in the tropics. (eco-business.com)
  • Besides reducing life-cycle emissions because of its high oil content (40%), relatively high crop yield and no competition with food crops. (eco-business.com)
  • The Government must rule out using any food crops and have strict standards to not only protect the environment, but also human rights. (oxfam.org.nz)
  • They are concerned that diverting food crops to energy use could potentially drive up food prices. (industryweek.com)
  • High oil prices and growing concerns over climate change are driving investment and innovation in the biofuels sector as countries and industry increasingly look towards renewable bioenergy to replace fossil fuels. (mongabay.com)
  • On average, food-based biofuels emit 50 percent more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. (oxfam.org)
  • It is not based on petroleum or other fossil fuels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuels shall significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared to fossil fuels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuels, in the form of liquid fuels derived from plant materials, are entering the market, driven by factors such as oil price spikes and the need for increased energy security. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuels have a limited ability to replace fossil fuels and should not be regarded as a 'silver bullet' to deal with transport emissions. (wikipedia.org)
  • European biofuels use is expected to reach the equivalent of nearly 30 million tonnes of oil by the end of this decade, driven by a mandatory target for 10% of renewable energy in transport fuels by 2020. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Bio-fuels have tied oil and food prices together as never before. (copperwiki.org)
  • With news of world hunger reaching front page, there is a new scramble to develop smart bio-fuels crop which would bring in the poor farmers of the dry-lands to the bio-fuel market, without compromising on their Food Security , or causing environmental damage. (copperwiki.org)
  • MEPs agreed with the Commission's proposal that for sustainability reasons, feed and food crop-based fuels should not be eligible because of high indirect land-use change risk. (greenairnews.com)
  • By explicitly excluding certain feed and food crop-based fuels, MEPs have further instilled legitimacy in the SAF system," said a statement by trade association Airlines for Europe, which welcomed the PFAD exclusion. (greenairnews.com)
  • Passengers can now trust that the ramp up of sustainable fuels in the coming years will not occur at the expense of food supplies for people or animals, nor damage our environment. (greenairnews.com)
  • The European green group welcomed though the Parliament's preference for synthetic fuels over biofuels. (greenairnews.com)
  • With its highly developed sugarcane-based ethanol industry, Brazil alone could produce liquid fuels equivalent to about 14 percent of the current world transportation fuel demand by 2030. (eurekalert.org)
  • The European Union is approaching agreement on its updated Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), which would double the requirements for renewables content in transportation fuels, including biofuels, compared to existing targets. (iea.org)
  • Surging gasoline and food costs are weighing on the Biden administration as it prepares to set mandates for the use of renewable fuels. (ttnews.com)
  • Waste-based biofuels could be a key driver of the energy transition transforming today's limited supply of low carbon transportation fuels and creating a local, circular economy, according to a new report by research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Bio-based diesel and aviation fuels from plant-based feedstock could emit 80% less carbon than the crude oil-based products that dominate today's global market. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Biofuels emit CO2 on combustion, but their net lifecycle emissions are far lower than fossil fuels, as carbon is removed when the vegetable feedstock is grown or waste is recycled. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass , rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels , such as oil. (wikipedia.org)
  • The climate change mitigation potential of biofuel varies considerably, from emission levels comparable to fossil fuels in some scenarios to negative emissions in others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other publications reserve the term biofuel for liquid or gaseous fuels, used for transportation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Advanced biofuels are liquid fuels that are generally derived from non-food-based feedstocks and yield a lifecycle reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 50% compared with fossil fuels. (mass.gov)
  • Biofuels are substitutes for liquid petroleum fuels (such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil) and are derived from renewable organic matter such as corn, soy, switchgrass, agricultural waste, wood, and waste vegetable oil. (mass.gov)
  • Biofuels, or fuels derived from biomass, are great in theory. (good.is)
  • Consider: the European Union has an ambitious biofuels target requiring 20 percent of liquid transport fuels to come from renewable sources by 2020. (good.is)
  • In October last year, the European Commission proposed amending the EU's Renewable Energy Directive by introducing a 5% limit for counting food crop-based biofuels towards the 10% target for renewable energy in transport fuels by 2020, improving sustainability criteria and promoting the use of advanced biofuels. (oxfam.org)
  • Alternative fuels must make economic sense, the researchers stress, for biofuels to make a dent in the petroleum-driven market. (futurity.org)
  • The company is well placed to do so, since it is the world's biggest producer of biofuels from Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), as well as being an existing supplier of aviation fuels (so far primarily fossil fuels). (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • Even if this was true, the indirect greenhouse gas emissions of palm oil biofuels are still three times as bad for the climate as those of the fossil fuels they replace. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • However, so-called "third-generation biofuels do not represent a feasible option at present state of development as their GHG emissions are higher than those from fossil fuels . (environmentamerica.org)
  • For example, algae has long been seen as a promising source for biofuels, but they still use more energy than the fuels can produce , "so barring a major tech breakthrough, they likely aren't the climate hero some had hoped. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Advanced biofuels can reduce emissions by 70% to 80% compared to fossil fuels. (pall.com)
  • Both chemically and functionally, traditional biofuels differ from petroleum-derived fuels and, therefore, can only be used in relatively low blends in existing vehicle engines. (pall.com)
  • Consequently, advanced biofuels can be processed and distributed under existing petroleum infrastructure because they are functionally equivalent to petroleum fuels. (pall.com)
  • A $40 to $50 billion global market in low-carbon fuels (biofuels, power-to-X fuels that depend on green hydrogen, and fuels that rely on blue hydrogen made from natural gas) will materialize by 2030. (bcg.com)
  • Between biofuels, power-to-X fuels that depend on green hydrogen , and fuels that rely on blue hydrogen made from natural gas, we expect a $40 to $50 billion global market in low-carbon fuels to materialize by 2030, driven by early adopters willing to pay a premium to meet decarbonization pressures and benefit from regulatory incentives. (bcg.com)
  • Low-carbon fuels-in particular, biofuels and fuels based on blue and green hydrogen-offer a variety of potential solutions to these challenges. (bcg.com)
  • Fewer than 40 heat-loving fungi have been identified and they hold great promise in the production of many chemicals and biomass-based fuels. (greenoptimistic.com)
  • To increase the use of lower-carbon fuels in the transport sector and contribute to climate change mitigation goals, New Zealand is considering a Sustainable Biofuels Mandate. (theicct.org)
  • The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that "only 3% of food prices" were due to bio-fuels. (mediamonarchy.com)
  • The long-term alternatives to fossil energy that have been discussed since the early 1970s are advanced energy efficient vehicles in combination with either biofuels in various forms or renewable electricity or hydrogen as fuels. (lu.se)
  • Sustainable biofuel is biofuel produced in a sustainable manner. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2008, the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels released its proposed standards for sustainable biofuels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several countries and regions have introduced policies or adopted standards to promote sustainable biofuels production and use, most prominently the European Union and the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • Second-generation biofuels include new cellulosic technologies, with responsible policies and economic instruments to help ensure that biofuel commercialization is sustainable. (wikipedia.org)
  • Responsible commercialization of biofuels represents an opportunity to enhance sustainable economic prospects in Africa, Latin America and Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • As the world transitions to new, sustainable energy sources , the somewhat neglected biofuel sector may have a crucial part to play. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • To avoid a " food versus fuel " dilemma, second-generation biofuels (also called advanced biofuels or sustainable biofuels ) are made from waste products. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ministry officials ("we were caught with our pants down") acknowledge the push of EU policy in driving companies to Tanzania and the failure to encourage sustainable development of the country's biofuel sector. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • India, the current president of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, has proposed a global biofuel alliance that seeks to accelerate the development of sustainable biofuels to support the global energy transition. (kfor.com)
  • Those issues have clouded the picture of exactly how sustainable biofuels are, and led to skepticism of them as a clean energy option. (kfor.com)
  • Sustainable biofuels have an important role to play in EU energy independence and food security. (politico.eu)
  • But it risks failing by overlooking an immediate, cost-effective and socially inclusive solution to all these challenges: sustainable biofuels. (politico.eu)
  • As the European Parliament's plenary prepares to vote on revising the Renewable Energy Directive, the question of whether the EU will make the best use of sustainable biofuels remains a crucial issue. (politico.eu)
  • Sustainable biofuels deliver results now, without requiring new infrastructure investments. (politico.eu)
  • The European Commission regularly confirms that biofuel production in the EU is sustainable. (politico.eu)
  • Their results, published this summer in two papers-one in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and the other in Biotechnology for Biofuels -point to a promising future for using poplar coppice for biofuel. (futurity.org)
  • Advanced biofuels are also considered more sustainable than traditional (first generation) biofuels. (pall.com)
  • This will ensure establishment of a sustainable biodiesel industry that will not compete for land and other resources with the rest of the agricultural sector that produces food and fibre. (eco-business.com)
  • Sustainable biofuel production in an agricultural setting could bring particular benefit to farmers in the developing world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sustainable management of the marine sector together with development of marine aquaculture remains vitally important both for domestic food security and for generating national income and foreign reserves. (who.int)
  • Sustainable fisheries management and security of village marine food resources are recognized as priority outcomes to ensure our long-term food security. (who.int)
  • Sweden's expert authority in the areas agriculture, fishery and rural areas with the mission for Sweden to produce food in a sustainable and profitable way. (lu.se)
  • Sustainable performance of lignocellulose-based ethanol and biogas co-produced in innovative biorefinery systems. (lu.se)
  • In addition to the legislative requirements regarding hygiene, working environment, environment, product information etc that apply to food serving, the Sustainability Forum has listed additional requirements that need to be set for an event to be considered sustainable. (lu.se)
  • The list is primarily based on information from the procurement authority on sustainability criteria for food and meal services, questions in the Sustainable Event self-evaluation, the County Administrative Board of Skåne's requirement list for suppliers of food and drink, the Swedish Food Agency's advices to reduce environmental impact and requirements linked to University's participation in Fairtrade City Lund. (lu.se)
  • Thus marginal or abandoned agricultural lands may be developed specifically as biofuel feedstock plantations without competing with food and feed. (eurekalert.org)
  • Cellulosic biomass , derived from non-food sources, such as trees and grasses, is also being developed as a feedstock for ethanol production. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cultivation of feedstock used in biofuel production compared to total agricultural commodities availability is limited and related environmental impacts are low. (politico.eu)
  • Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock," says Chang Dou, a doctoral student in the University of Washington's Bioresource Science and Engineering program at lead author of both papers. (futurity.org)
  • Among all major food and feed commodities, the additional demand for maize (a feedstock for the production of ethanol) and rapeseed (a feedstock for the production of biodiesel) has had the potential for the strongest impacts on prices. (greencarcongress.com)
  • This CJP analysis focuses on the 17 primary non-food sources of biodiesels -out of which seven namely Jatropha, Jojoba, Castor, Pongamia, Moringa, Simarouba and Microalgae have been tried, tested that adequate amount of each type of feedstock that could be sustainably produced and utilized across the globe without compromising the fertility of agricultural soils, displacing land needed to grow our food, or threatening the health of our farms and forests. (eco-business.com)
  • The article points out that biofuel feedstocks need not grow on land currently being farmed for food and animal feed. (eurekalert.org)
  • Most biofuel production currently uses so-called conventional feedstocks, such as sugar cane, corn and soybeans. (iea.org)
  • Expanding biofuel production to advanced feedstocks is critical to ensuring minimal impact on land-use, food and feed prices and other environmental factors. (iea.org)
  • Biofuels could meet two-thirds of liquids demand in hard-to-decarbonise transportation sectors, as well as provide circular feedstocks for petrochemicals. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • The advanced biofuels of tomorrow depend on biochemical research, technological entrepreneurship, and feedstocks that are derived from waste products or can be grown without undue displacement of productive land. (mass.gov)
  • Cellulosic biofuels refer to gasoline substitutes made from the fibrous matter (cellulose) of feedstocks, such as switchgrass, agricultural wastes, and forest products, rather than corn. (mass.gov)
  • Advanced biofuels are made by processing oleochemical feedstocks like used cooking oils, tallow, and other waste and residue lipids. (pall.com)
  • Using waste bio-feedstocks that would otherwise go to landfills and serve no other purpose, advanced biofuels contribute to a circular economy. (pall.com)
  • Second generation biofuel production aims to use waste carbohydrate feedstocks, such as straw and wood, to avoid competition with food production. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The RFS requires that at least half of the biofuels production mandated by 2022 should reduce lifecycle emissions by 50 percent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuel demand in 2022 reached a record high of 4.3 EJ (170 000 million litres), surpassing levels seen in 2019 prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. (iea.org)
  • In 2022 biofuels represented over 3.5% of global transport energy demand, mainly for road transport. (iea.org)
  • Congress laid out blending targets through 2022, but lawmakers tasked the EPA with setting specific annual volume-based quotas. (ttnews.com)
  • Inflation and sustained demand drove 8.9% value sales growth of water-based drinks in Europe in the last year (full year ended August 2022) to €35.6bn, reveals analysis from IRI data from actual sales of FMCG products across Europe. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The EU policy lacks even basic criteria for social sustainability and human rights, making it impossible to bar European biofuel producers from sourcing palm oil lands where communities' human rights and right to land have been violated and abused," Herman said. (oxfam.org)
  • Second, the EU must ensure that biofuels contributing to the mandate are both socially and environmentally sound by expanding its sustainability criteria. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • Neste can meet EU sustainability standards for biofuels by sourcing palm oil from older plantations, commonly ones for which rainforest was destroyed before 2008. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • Plant-based bottles & edible packaging: What does sustainability look like in the bottled water industry? (foodnavigator.com)
  • However, they suffer from drawbacks like sustainability issues in both the food and fuel market and insufficiency in meeting the high energy demands. (aiche.org)
  • As currently proposed, the mandate would take the form of a transport fuel greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity reduction target and seek to avoid negative sustainability impacts, particularly regarding competition with food and feed production, biodiversity impacts, and the conversion of land containing large stocks of carbon. (theicct.org)
  • According to a Sustainability Science approach, my research is based in perspective that natural and social systems as closely coupled, which in practice means that both research and teaching is carried out in interdisciplinary teams. (lu.se)
  • The theory is that algae biomass can circumvent and relieve the food-for-fuel controversy because it appears to be a cost-effective source of high-grade oil for bio-fuel and edible oils and proteins for food and animal feed. (copperwiki.org)
  • As electronic media and paper recycling gain in popularity, the reduced demand for pulp woods could provide opportunities for large amounts of woody biomass to contribute to biofuel production, the authors state. (eurekalert.org)
  • An international group of scientists have cracked the genetic code of two heat-loving fungi, Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris , and could use their findings for faster and greener development of biofuels derived from biomass. (greenoptimistic.com)
  • Current ethanol production methods include chemical conversion of food sources like corn [1] and thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass [2]. (aiche.org)
  • Hence, there has been a shift of focus towards biochemical fermentation, which can utilize different cellulosic biomass substrates and pretreatment technology options without using food resources, thereby solving the previous methods' downsides [3]. (aiche.org)
  • The parameters that varied the most based on the clustering results were chosen as the output of the neural network, and the model states like biomass, substrate, and product were chosen as inputs to the neural network. (aiche.org)
  • But the US and EU governments brushed off my verbal assault, maintaining their escalating biofuel mandates. (motherjones.com)
  • But cellulosic biofuel production is lagging. (good.is)
  • A recent estimate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects cellulosic biofuel production to be 3.94 million gallons in 2011. (good.is)
  • The Council and European Parliament are currently debating the European Commission's proposal to limit the contribution of food-based biofuels to the EU's mandate of 10% renewable energy in the transport sector by the year 2020 (which is to be met almost entirely by biofuels). (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • This makes it all the more painful that the Renewable Energy Directive's mandate contributes directly to increasing food prices. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • The Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has announced a suspension of the formal requirements of the Advanced Biofuels Mandate for heating oil and transportation diesel fuel and instead will establish a voluntary program. (mass.gov)
  • All biofuels must meet at least a 50% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over their entire lifecycles (growing, processing, and combustion) in order to qualify for the content mandate. (mass.gov)
  • It focuses on various limits that could be placed on food- and feed-based biofuels, and the authors assess the combination of biofuel pathways that could be used to meet the mandate in 2025 in each scenario, and also the associated GHG impacts and costs. (theicct.org)
  • The United States Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides production and investment support for biofuels estimated at USD 9.4 billion to 2031. (iea.org)
  • As an example, the rapid global development of biofuels has demonstrated both a great potential to reduce climate emission, poverty and farming diversity but could also, poorly managed, result in increased food insecurity, land grabbing and ultimately increasing climate emissions. (lu.se)
  • The EU Renewable Energy Directive requires that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels consumed be at least 50 percent less than the equivalent emissions from gasoline or diesel by 2017 (and 35 percent less starting in 2011). (wikipedia.org)
  • MEPs have today approved a cap on the production of food crop-based biofuels and backed plans to measure indirect emissions from 2020. (businessgreen.com)
  • However, a significant increase in biofuel production is needed to get on track with the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 (NZE) Scenario and deliver the associated emission reductions. (iea.org)
  • Waste-based biofuels would curb carbon emissions at a similar rate and solve issues for industries that are hard to electrify. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • A biofuel made from waste or inedible vegetation, with renewable energy to power the production, would have little or no greenhouse gas emissions, making it a clean fuel. (kfor.com)
  • Two EU laws adopted in 2009 promote the use of biofuels in the EU, ostensibly for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector. (transportenvironment.org)
  • In nation-leading provisions, this law gives preferential tax treatment to non-corn-based alternatives to ethanol, requires biofuel content in all the diesel and home-heating fuel sold in the state, and proposes a new fuel standard for the region that will encourage a range of emissions-reducing technologies for cars and trucks. (mass.gov)
  • It operates at the crossroads of food and feed production, fossil-fuel substitution and European energy independence, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) savings and the domestic bioeconomy. (politico.eu)
  • This would have dire consequences for Europe's goals for energy, food security and emissions-reduction. (politico.eu)
  • As Michael Grunwald recently wrote in the New York Times, biofuels "increase greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of carbon-rich forests, wetlands, and grasslands into farmland, expanding our agricultural footprint while shrinking nature's. (environmentamerica.org)
  • GHG emissions actually increase compared to no policy action in Scenario 3, where there is no limit on the amount of food- or feed-based biofuels. (theicct.org)
  • This includes 12 principles: "Biofuel production shall follow international treaties and national laws regarding such things as air quality, water resources, agricultural practices, labor conditions, and more. (wikipedia.org)
  • The JFFLS approach, developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), has been operational since 2003 and has been recently adapted to provide a response to emergency situations. (fao.org)
  • The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 explores the implications of the rapid recent growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. (fao.org)
  • The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely induced by policies in developed countries, based on their expected positive contributions to climate-change mitigation, energy security and agricultural development. (fao.org)
  • The growing demand for agricultural commodities for the production of biofuels is having significant repercussions on agricultural markets, and concerns are mounting over their negative impact on the food security of millions of people across the world. (fao.org)
  • However, developing new technologies that drive biofuel production from municipal waste, agricultural residue and recycling plastics wastes could be a game changer for the energy transition . (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Biofuel can be produced from plants or from agricultural, domestic or industrial biowaste. (wikipedia.org)
  • Any fuel produced from agricultural produce or organic waste is a biofuel. (kfor.com)
  • "In their efforts to appease the biofuels industry and agricultural lobbyists, MEPs have failed in their duty to represent the best interests of their electorate and the one in eight people going to bed hungry each night. (oxfam.org)
  • Although not the sole cause for the worldwide rapid increases in food prices, the biofuels market has created a new and significant source of demand for some agricultural commodities such as sugar, corn, cassava, oilseeds and palm oil. (greencarcongress.com)
  • On farm production can be introduced and scaled-up relatively easily and as shown by this example, can work in synergy, instead of competing with food supply for agricultural resources. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As of 2008, when the Clean Energy Biofuels Act was issued, only California had committed to developing a Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which could be met by a range of possible technologies - more and better biofuels, plug-in hybrids, all-electric cars, or other innovations. (mass.gov)
  • The first generation (or seed based) biofuels have focused on corn, soy, and rapeseed in Europe. (biofortified.org)
  • I can imagine this happening in cultures where both starches are used (such as Mexico and South America) but corn has never been a staple food in south east Asia. (biofortified.org)
  • In the US corn-based ethanol has become the rage. (copperwiki.org)
  • Some oil refiners have also told the White House that higher quotas risk exacerbating lofty prices for corn, soybeans, palm oil and sugar, which are increasingly processed into biofuels worldwide. (ttnews.com)
  • We first develop a partial equilibrium model to estimate the effect of the RFS on the price of selected food commodities - rice, wheat, corn, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. (iza.org)
  • Bioethanol can also be produced from corn and sugarcane (first-generation biofuels), however, there are ethical concerns due to competition between growing food for consumption and growing food for fuel, thus raising the fuel vs food debate. (rte.ie)
  • Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to give a tax incentive for the use of cellulosic biofuels rather than corn-based ethanol. (mass.gov)
  • For urban residents, the US biofuel mandates-now sending 40 percent of the US corn crop into ethanol production-are pushing up the price of corn, a staple food in Guatemala. (motherjones.com)
  • Rosenthal points to an Iowa State University study estimating that US biofuel policy added about 17 percent to global corn prices in 2011-bad news for people who rely on tortillas as a staple. (motherjones.com)
  • The change in land use has been rapid and stark: "Suchitepéquez Province, a major corn-producing region [for domestic food consumption] five years ago, is now carpeted with sugar cane and African palm. (motherjones.com)
  • The worst biofuels are those that require mass cultivation of corn and soy, or that contribute to deforestation. (environmentamerica.org)
  • I remain skeptical about the long-term prospects of the industry as a whole, and outright bearish on corn-based ethanol. (altenergystocks.com)
  • However, recent technological advancements have presented an opportunity to convert food waste into renewable biofuels, such as bioethanol which can be used in automobiles and aircraft engines. (rte.ie)
  • This research could transform ordinary green waste like leaves into renewable biofuels and could also substitute petroleum in otherwise environmentally harmful chemical processes. (greenoptimistic.com)
  • We welcome the decision to rule out the use of palm and soy oil and to limit the use of food and feed to produce biofuel. (oxfam.org.nz)
  • Many countries with poor energy security lack the infrastructure and investment to produce biofuel. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It's a lot simpler to integrate animal feed production into cellulosic ethanol production than it is to integrate human food production. (mongabay.com)
  • The evidence indicates that large-scale biofuel production will increase, not decrease, world food supplies by making animal feed production much more efficient," Dale argued. (mongabay.com)
  • Rice and food production should be prioritized. (biofortified.org)
  • Biofuel production shall not violate human rights or labor rights, and shall ensure decent work and the well-being of workers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuel production shall contribute to the social and economic development of local, rural and indigenous peoples and communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuel production shall not impair food security. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuel production shall avoid negative impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems and areas of high conservation value. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuel production shall promote practices that improve soil health and minimize degradation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biofuels shall be produced in the most cost-effective way, with a commitment to improve production efficiency and social and environmental performance in all stages of the biofuel value chain. (wikipedia.org)
  • The European food industry must back calls to remove EU backed biofuel production targets, or face growing volatility as commodity costs soar, warns ActionAid. (foodnavigator.com)
  • "Food prices are just one part of this, because in the long term the increase of biofuel production will also lead to less land and water being available for food production," ​ explained Coffey - who noted that the global energy sector is 20 times larger than the food sector. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Even small increases fuel production from these sources will result in large scale volatility and price increases in the food sector," ​ she warned. (foodnavigator.com)
  • She suggested that industry and other groups can help by providing an equal or stronger lobby to help policy makers realise the implications of biofuel production on food price volatility. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Biofuel production reaches over 10 EJ by 2030 in the NZE Scenario, requiring an average growth of around 11% per year. (iea.org)
  • Rural communities lament the production models of the biggest European biofuel companies in the country, which rely on large-scale land acquisition and blocking off their access to land and water resources without adequate compensation. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • The EU must put a stop to companies using harmful production models and occupying precious land and water resources to produce biofuels for Europe, rather than food for the local market. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • EU biofuels production creates food, feed and fuel, significantly strengthening Europe's strategic autonomy by offsetting the need to import animal feed and displacing the use of crude oil in transport. (politico.eu)
  • With increased production, use of fallow land and continued domestic supply of animal feed, EU agriculture can rise to the challenges of production and global food security. (politico.eu)
  • And what about algae fuel , once thought of as the holy grail of biofuel production? (good.is)
  • This is one of the clearest statements of the effects of biofuel production on global demand I've run across. (grist.org)
  • to recognize the effect biofuel production has on prices. (grist.org)
  • So in the long term, when production has a chance to "catch up" to demand caused by biofuels, price changes are smoothed out and things appear stable. (grist.org)
  • Neste aims to become the world's largest aviation biofuel producer in 2019 and to rapidly scale up its production in the next five years. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • The company has decided to locate its aviation biofuel production in Singapore, i.e. in the centre of the world's largest palm oil producing region. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth's climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. (nature.com)
  • In quantifying impacts away from target areas, we demonstrate that soot injections larger than 5 Tg would lead to mass food shortages, and livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output, in almost all countries. (nature.com)
  • On the other hand, production of all the other major food commodity groups by major exporting countries was not affected in a similar way during the same period. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Second, Chinese authorities recently placed a moratorium on granting new permits for the production of cereal-crop-based ethanol on concerns over food price inflation in the country. (altenergystocks.com)
  • Resources such as energy, water, food, land, and materials underpin the functioning of the systems of production and consumption (see Figure 1) that support our physiological needs and overall well-being. (europa.eu)
  • Given our limited capacity for international trade, balance of payments constraints, and recurrent emergencies, increasing and stabilizing domestic food production is considered to be essential for a resilient food secure Marshall Islands. (who.int)
  • Increased production, processing and preservation of local nutritious foods and strengthened local markets are therefore important strategies to be pursued under this policy, together with effective education, communication and outreach programs. (who.int)
  • The stability of our food supply at the national level is dependent on the resilience of the food supply system (comprising domestic production and imports) to shocks - such as food price spikes, climatic disasters (droughts, cyclones, storm surges etc.), outbreaks of pest/ diseases, and also to longer-term trends - including downturns in the global economy, changing climatic conditions and labor migration from rural areas. (who.int)
  • This policy therefore highlights the duel needs of increasing local food production and ensuring an efficient national food distribution system. (who.int)
  • In production of food, materials and chemicals and recycling of residues and used materials the addition of anaerobic digestion to the system can often improve the overall resource-efficiency. (lu.se)
  • The production of antibody-based immunoassays is necessary for the assessment of occupational exposure and the development of threshold limit values. (cdc.gov)
  • Those incentives could be in the form of a ' carbon tax credit ' that would create a level playing field with fossil fuel-based products and significantly improve the competitiveness of biofuel. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Yet by getting rid of biofuel mandates … world leaders could at the stroke of a pen, tackle a key factor behind world food price rises and volatility. (foodnavigator.com)
  • And for Guatemala's subsistence farmers, biofuel mandates in the Global North mean less land for growing food. (motherjones.com)
  • The country's lush farmland is largely "owned by a handful of families," Rosenthal reports, and they're finding it much more profitable to grow sugarcane and palm to satisfy Europe's biofuel mandates than to rent it to peasant farmers to grow food. (motherjones.com)
  • Workers fill a tanker with ethanol a type of biofuels at Bajaj Hindustan Sugar factory in Meerut, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (kfor.com)
  • The new report from development charity ActionAid, warns that Europe's demand for biofuels could drive up food crop prices by as much as 36% by 2020 - helping to push millions more into hunger, and also creating increased volatility and price pressures in the food manufacturing industry. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The two most common types of biofuel are bioethanol and biodiesel . (wikipedia.org)
  • Popular types of biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and biogas can be produced from any of these sources and are classified based on the source from which they are produced. (kfor.com)
  • Additionally, the state provides various biodiesel-related incentives, including funding for biofuel fueling stations and exempting the biodiesel or ethanol portion of blended fuel with taxable diesel from the diesel fuel tax. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The report contains three indices: the All Biofuels Index, the Ethanol Index and the Biodiesel Index. (altenergystocks.com)
  • In the research , published in Biotechnology for Biofuels , Mitsuo Horita and colleagues from the National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan, added enzymes and yeast to bales of whole rice plants, so that they could breakdown the straw into fermentable sugars. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The encyclopeida cover a multitude of applications in diverse disciplines such as biotechnology, medicine, agro-food and petrochemical industries, environmental protection, as well as drinking water supply. (lu.se)
  • Biofuels play a particularly important role in decarbonising transport by providing a low-carbon solution for hard-to-abate sectors such as trucking, shipping and aviation. (iea.org)
  • Biofuels play a particularly important role in decarbonising transport by providing a low-carbon solution for existing technologies, such as light-duty vehicles in the near term and heavy-duty trucks, ships and aircraft with few alternative and cost-effective solutions in the long term. (iea.org)
  • From RTÉ Radio 1's Drivetime, could biofuels help cut our carbon footprint? (rte.ie)
  • With gas prices high and with commodities around the world high, there's a massive amount of political attention on this program," said Advanced Biofuels Association President Mike McAdams, who has worked on the Renewable Fuel Standard since before its creation in 2005. (ttnews.com)
  • At the same time, the environmental impacts of biofuels are also coming under closer scrutiny. (fao.org)
  • The stall reflects the high level of political sensitivity around the issue, as the White House looks for ways to tamp down gasoline and food prices. (ttnews.com)
  • Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into gasoline over the next three years. (environmentamerica.org)
  • That was tragic back when biofuels seemed like the only plausible alternative to planet-broiling gasoline, but it's inexcusable now that electric vehicles have become better, cleaner, and more economical. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The EU's renewable energy policy, that brace food-based biofuels, is at the expense of food security, poverty eradication and the climate. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • As part of our Fair Politics series of impact studies , I traveled to Tanzania for the Evert Vermeer Foundation to hear first-hand the country's experiences with biofuels and the EU's Renewable Energy Directive. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • First, the EU must phase out the contribution of food-based biofuels to the EU's renewable energy targets. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • If the best arguments the biofuels industry can come up with is that the EU's scientific modeling for ILUC is flawed, the EU must acknowledge the inconvenient truth that food-based biofuels are not the answer to climate change. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • There does not have to be a trade-off between the EU's food security goals, its climate goals, and its independence objectives. (politico.eu)
  • EU member states will adopt their common position on the EU's biofuels reform in the coming months. (oxfam.org)
  • As a result, millions will continue to be susceptible to volatile food prices, deforestation and further land-grabbing. (oxfam.org)
  • Currently, biofuels only account for 3% of today's 100 million barrels per day (b/d) liquid fuel demand. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Cellulosic waste can also be used for drop-in biofuels, or biofuels that can be implemented within today's fuel distribution infrastructure. (good.is)
  • As a result of fierce industry lobbying, today's vote was won by only a very small margin, despite obvious support from a large number of MEPs and European citizens to stop using food for fuel. (oxfam.org)
  • With cellulosic ethanol, the 'food vs. fuel' debate goes away. (mongabay.com)
  • In the NZE Scenario, the contribution of biofuels to transport more than doubles to 9% in 2030, accounting for a similar share of fuel demand for road vehicles alone. (iea.org)
  • According to Wood Mackenzie, this could supply an additional 20 million barrels per day (b/d) of liquid biofuel by 2050, so satisfying a quarter of all future liquid fuel demand (95 million b/d in 2050), equivalent to around three quarters of 2050 middle distillate demand. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Ethanol fuel is the most common biofuel worldwide, particularly in Brazil . (wikipedia.org)
  • Bioethanol from plant sources (also known as second-generation biofuel) is a renewable fuel that can be produced from a variety of cellulosic and industrial food waste, such as distillers' spent grain. (rte.ie)
  • Requires a minimum percentage of advanced biofuel as a component of all diesel fuel and home-heating fuel sold in the Commonwealth , starting at 2% in 2010 and ramping up to 5% by 2013. (mass.gov)
  • Guatemala needs food more than it needs car fuel-it has 68 cars per 1,000 residents, versus 209 for Brazil (and about 800 for the US). (motherjones.com)
  • Electricity isn't the only non-petroleum-based fuel touted as changing the transportation landscape. (good.is)
  • According to a report from Berkeley's Energy Biofuel Institute, the algae fuel development process could take up to a decade. (good.is)
  • But the next time you come across a biofuel start-up touting its product as the Fuel That Will Change the World, just remember: It won't happen tomorrow. (good.is)
  • A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Administration, concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the USA and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide . (mediamonarchy.com)
  • The last stage is processing in a conventional refinery to create biofuel versions of the crude oil-based products we use today. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • How does the congressional agenda align with what some of the leading ag, biofuels, and food policy groups have on their 2019 wish list? (agri-pulse.com)
  • In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food-based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest," she writes. (motherjones.com)
  • In Wood Mackenzie's accelerated energy transition-1.5 scenario, the global demand for liquids would fall to only 35 million b/d by 2050, 60% lower than the base case. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • Biofuels contribution to 2050 liquid demand scenarios. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • [4] Demand for aviation biofuel is forecast to increase. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general, Asia's higher incomes have not triggered the surge in demand for food. (grist.org)
  • This increase in demand, according to a report prepared by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) " has been one of the leading factors behind the increase in their prices in world markets which, in turn, has led to higher food prices . (greencarcongress.com)
  • On the demand side, the surging biofuels market is the significant new factor. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Coffey told us that 'powerful' lobbying from farmers and the energy sector - who see the targets as a 'lucrative' opportunity - has persuaded world leaders to ignore the scientific facts and refuse to address the issues biofuels are having on foods prices. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The report was watered down after intense pressure from the biofuels industry and European farmers lobby, despite strong evidence condemning crop-based biofuels from a number of sources. (oxfam.org)
  • In terms of diet, the Nelsons "eat clean" and get their food from local farmers' markets when they are on the road. (austinfitmagazine.com)
  • These models are nearly all designed to estimate biofuels' effects on prices over the long term, after farmers have ample time to plow up and plant more land, and do not speak to prices in the shorter term. (grist.org)
  • The biofuels space is an interesting beast, standing at the confluence Western governments' efforts to protect their farmers and emerging markets' attempts to find a in. (altenergystocks.com)
  • Today in Strasbourg, NGOs handed over a petition with over 240,000 signatures asking MEPs to stop taking food out of people's mouths. (oxfam.org)
  • If the Commissioners are as serious about human and environmental development as they claim, they must first tackle the European Union's biofuels policy, which is threatening food security, the climate, and land rights across the globe. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • Many environmentalists have expressed concerns that biofuels will increase food prices and spur forest-clearing in tropical countries. (mongabay.com)
  • Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. (iza.org)
  • Countries hit hardest by these land grabs-Mozambique, Benin, Sierra Leone, to name a few-have to deal with problems like water depletion, soil degradation, and increased food prices. (good.is)
  • That means airlines will increasingly lean on drop-in biofuels as oil prices rise in the coming years. (good.is)
  • Many of them misinterpret the economic models, which understate the degree to which biofuels drive up prices. (grist.org)
  • The report, Soaring food prices: facts, perspectives, impacts and actions required , was prepared as one of the discussion documents for an upcoming conference on world food security in Rome focused on the challenges of climate change and bioenergy. (greencarcongress.com)
  • A " confluence of different forces " has contributed to the rapid increase in food prices, according to the report. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Economic factors, like food prices and higher biofuel-based energy costs, may be trumping climate change concerns in Europe. (industryweek.com)
  • The rapid rise in food commodity prices in 2008 and the continued high food prices today has called into question our heavy reliance on the global food market. (who.int)
  • cleaner, low-ILUC biofuels are still not properly incentivized, in particular in the FQD. (transportenvironment.org)
  • As the table below shows, the GHG reductions are highest in Scenario 1, where no food- or feed-based biofuels are allowed, and this comes at a greater cost than Scenario 2, where such biofuels are limited to 50% for compliance and high indirect land use change (ILUC) biofuels are not allowed. (theicct.org)
  • This proposed 5% cap comes on the back of scientific evidence which shows that food-based biofuels are not as climate-friendly as many initially thought as a result of the Indirect Land Use Change phenomenon. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • From 2004 onwards, the country has been faced with the arrival of European companies looking to exploit the country's abundant land and tropical climate to produce biofuels for the EU market, especially through the not so wonderful 'wonder crop' jatropha. (thebrokeronline.eu)
  • According to the International Energy Agency, the net-zero pathway demands that nearly half of biofuels consumed in 2030 - 45 percent - must be produced with waste. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • In turning waste into biofuels, being local is an advantage. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • The biofuels ecosystem would revolve around a hub-and-spoke distribution model, where the initial conversion of waste to biofuels is local, with the liquids produced then aggregated for processing in an existing refining facility. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • If all falls into place for waste-based biofuels, the accelerated energy transition projections are dramatic. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • If the refining sector begins to process waste for biofuels and governments support the initiative, we could be on a viable pathway to a circular economy, with its many benefits, that is compatible with mitigating climate change. (offshore-energy.biz)
  • To understand the process of obtaining bioethanol from food waste, we need to understand the composition of these wastes. (rte.ie)
  • Cellulosic ethanol, which is produced from wood, grasses, and the non-edible parts of plants, is more promising-since it is produced from non-food and waste products, it doesn't use up large swaths of arable land like first generation biofuels. (good.is)
  • just this week, CoolPlanet Biofuels, a startup that turns cellulosic waste into biofuel, got $8 million in funding. (good.is)
  • Adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have limited impact on increasing available calories. (nature.com)
  • Scenario 1 comes at a greater cost to consumers than Scenario 2 because supplying high quantities of waste-based biofuels is more expensive than supplying food-based biofuels. (theicct.org)
  • The coming decade will see the introduction of more advanced "2nd generation" of biofuels based on waste and wood. (lu.se)
  • Suppliers of coffee, cakes, lunch, dinner and so forth needs to have a well documented strategy for how to minimise all use of resources (food, plastic and paper waste). (lu.se)
  • All food waste must be kept aside and taken to recycling where it can be turned into Biofuel or be composed. (lu.se)
  • Aviation biofuels, also known as biojet kerosene, would need to make the most dramatic strides between now and 2030 to align with the Net Zero Scenario. (iea.org)
  • Click here to read Biofuelwatch's report about the Finish biofuel and oil company Neste and its aviation biofuel plans. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • Hydrotreating is the only technology mature enough and within a price range that is feasible for commercial aviation biofuels. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)
  • Furthermore, Neste has already signed agreements with several airlines and airports to supply HVO aviation biofuels. (biofuelwatch.org.uk)