Publications - International Biofuels for Transport

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Website: www.ieabioenergy.com/library/168_BiofuelsforTransport-Final.pdf




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Biofuels for Transport

This 16 page full colour brochure (ref: IEA Bioenergy - T39:2004:01) was produced in 2004 by the Implementing Agreement on Bioenergy, which forms part of a programme of international energy technology collaboration undertaken under the auspicies of the International Energy Agency. Following a brief introduction it covers:

Benefits of biofuels

• Environment
• Energy security
• Economic development

Biofuels today

• Ethanol and ETBE
• Biodiesel
• Biogas

Biofuels in the future

• Ethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks
• Other biofuels

The role of policies

• Taxation based policies
• Agricultural based policies
• Fuel mandates

It concludes that biofuels are an increasingly important part of the motor fuel mix in many countries, with a total of about 30 billion litres used annually, in many different types of vehicles and across a wide range of climates and conditions.

Policies and regulations have been essential in the implementation of use of biofuels and will continue to be important in the future.

These policies allow the Governments that adopt them to achieve benefits in areas of environment, energy security and economic development.

Contacts

Contact

• Jack SADDLER / University of British Colombia Department of Wood Science / CANADA