Current Issues Forum: Biofuels

Africa • Asia &the Pacific • Europe • Latin America & the Caribbean
North America • Others

Africa
  1. 2008. Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground. By Horand Knaup. BusinessWeek. 8 Sept 2008. (pdf)
  2. 2008. Biofuels war: The new scramble for Africa by western big money profiteers. By Sam Aola Ooko for EcoWorldly. 6 Sept 2008 (pdf)
  3. 2008. Biofuels Market Outlook: New Energy Report 2007. (Brochure and Order form) (pdf)
  4. 2007. Africa's big plan for bio fuels. By Clare Byrne. 6 Nov 2007. (pdf)
  5. 2007. Biofuels in Africa May Help Achieve Global Goals, Experts Say. By Llana Herro. WorldWatch Institute. 10 Aug 2007. (pdf)
Asia and the Pacific
  1. 2009. Mascoma Announces Major Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Breakthrough. May 7, 2009. (pdf)
  2. 2009. Biofuels Annual Report. Indonesia. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. GAIN Report Number ID9017. June 1, 2009 (pdf)
  3. 2009. Biofuels Annual Report. India. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. GAIN Report Number ID9080. June 15, 2009 (pdf)
  4. Desk Study on National Woodfuels and Wood Energy Information Analysis Cambodia (pdf)
  5. Desk Study on National Woodfuels and Wood Energy Information Analysis Malaysia (pdf)
  6. Desk Study on National Woodfuels and Wood Energy Information Analysis Pakistan (pdf)
  7. Regional Wood Energy Development Program in Asia: Field Documents, Reports and Miscellaneous, Wood Energy News and Additional Papers (website)
Europe
  1. 2009. EU Support for Biofuels and Bioenergy, Environmental Sustainability Criteria, and Trade Policy. June 2009. ICTSD Programme on Agricultural Trade and Sustainable Development. Issue Paper No. 17. By Alan Swinbank, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading
  2. 2008. Europe, Cutting Biofuel Subsidies, Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options by Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times. 22 Jan 2008. (pdf)
  3. 2008. EU promises new biofuel rules won't harm the environment. 14 Jan 2008. (pdf)
  4. 2007. EUROPE: 'Biofuels Can Hurt the Poor'. By David Cronin, IPNews. 6 Nov 2007. (pdf)
  5. 2007. SPAIN: Biofuels - Good for Business, Bad for the Poor, Say Activists. By Alicia Fraerman. IPSNews (pdf)
  6. 2007. European biofuel plans could spell disaster. Environmental Research letters. 17 Dec 2007 (pdf)
  7. Lithuanian - Swedish Wood Fuels Development Project (pdf)
  8. Bioenergy Conference in Jyväskylä in September 2003 (pdf)
  9. Heat that Grows on Trees (pdf)
  10. Biomass- Wood Gasification/Cogeneration (pdf)
  11. Comfortable use of wood pellets in one-family houses in Jamtland County (pdf)
  12. Development of Wood Chips and Pellets Market in Slovakia (pdf)
  13. General equations for Biomass Properties (pdf)
  14. Successful biomass Implementaion in Estonia (pdf)
  15. SIDA DemoEast programme in Estonia. Supply, delivery and Installation of wood pellet burning equipment (pdf)
  16. Wood Fired Heating Plant in Slovakia (pdf)
  17. BIOMASS-WOOD Power plant: Austria (pdf)
  18. Use of wood and wood products in the light of the climate change discussion (pdf)
  19. Comfortable use of wood pellets in one-family houses in Jämtland County, Sweden (pdf)
  20. Preparation of a pilot biogas CHP plant integrated with a wood-chip fired DHP system. Institue for Renewable Energy, Poland (pdf)
  21. Case Study: Wood Fired Heating Plant in Slovakia Energy Centre, Slovakia Slovak Centre of Biomass Use for Energy (pdf)
  22. Biomass combustion beyond reasonable limits? (pdf)
  23. The world´s largest biofuel CHP plant Alholmens Kraft, Pietarsaari(pdf)
  24. European Energy Policy Puts Industries Using Renewable Raw Materials At Risk (pdf)
  25. IEA Bioenergy task 40 - Country report for the Netherlands. Update 2006. (pdf)
  26. Report on energy efficient technologies and CO2 reduction potentials in the pulp and paper industry. (pdf)
  27. EUBIONET II Current situation and future trends in biomass fuel trade in Europe : Country report of Belgium. (pdf)
  28. Program for the conversion of Russian municipal boilers with 20MW maximum capacity to biofuel due to funds from the emissions reduction units sell, under the Kyoto Protocol. (pdf)
Latin America and the Caribbean
  1. 2008. Sustainability Analysis of African Palm Biodiesel in Ecuador: An Environmental, Socio-cultural, and Artistic Perspective. By Naomi A. Tuinstra. Thesis. 30 May 2008. (pdf)
  2. 2009. Biofuels Annual Report. Argentina. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. GAIN Report Number ID9018. June 19, 2009 (pdf)
  3. Assessing and Modeling Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution among Rural Women in Guatemala (pdf)
North America
  1. 2009. Some Biofuel Crops Pose Potential Invasive Threats. National Invasive Species Council (NISC). Newsletter, June 2009. (pdf)
  2. 2009. Biofuels Overview. Climate TechBook. May 2009. Pew Center on Global Climate Change. (pdf)
  3. 2009. Biofuels Are Not the Answer. An IISD Commentary. International Institute for Sustainable Development. David Runnalls. May 2009. (pdf)
  4. 2009. Converting farm and forest into biofuels is studied. The Cameron Parish Pilot. Cameron, Louisiana. 6 August 2009
  5. 2008. Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change. By Timothy Searchinger, et al. Science 319: 1238 (pdf)
  6. Canada Biomass-Bioenergy Report.(pdf)
Others
  1. 2008. Biogenic greenhouse gas emissions linked to the life cycles of bio-diesel derived from European rapeseed and Brazilian soybeans. L. Reijnders and M.A.J. Huijbregts. Journal of Cleaner Production 16:1943-1948 (pdf)
  2. 2008. Promoting biofuels: Implications for developing countries Jorg Peters and Sascha Thielmann. Energy Policy 36:1538-1544 (pdf)
  3. 2008. The bio-fuel debate and fossil energy use in palm oil production: a critique of Reijnders and Huijbregts, 2007 ( a letter to the editor) by S.C. de Vries, Journal of Cleaner Production, 16:1926-1927. (pdf)
  4. 2008. Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource. By Christopher B. Field, J. Elliott Campbell, and David B. Lobell. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(2):65-72. (pdf)
  5. 2008. Biodiesel from microalgae beats bioethanol. By Yusuf Chisti. Trends in Biotechnology, 26(3):126-131. (pdf)
  6. 2008. Biofuels, biodiversity, and people: Understanding the conflicts and finding opportunities. By Lian Pin Koh and Jaboury Ghazoul. Biological Conservation 141: 2450-2460. (pdf)
  7. 2008. Global food shorage used to biofuel use-Part III: U.S. backlash. By ClimatePatrol.net, 24 May 2008. (pdf)
  8. 2008. Analysis of Global Economic and Environmental Impacts of a Substantial Increase in Bioenergy Production. By Wallace E. Tyner, Thomas W. Hertel, Farzad Taheripour, and Dileep K. Birur. GTL Awardee Wokshop IV, 10-13 Feb 2008, Bethesda, MD (pdf)
  9. 2007. Policy Forum: Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests? Renton Righelato and Dominick V. Spracklen. Science : Vol. 317(5840):902, 17 August 2007. (pdf)
  10. 2007. Biofuels: What a Biopact between North and South could achieve. By John A. Mathews. Energy Policy 35:3550–3570. (pdf)
  11. 2007. Biofuels 'could benefit poor farmers'. 12 Aug 2007 (pdf)
  12. Chapter IV. Decomposition of Woods by Acids: Wood Saccharification (pdf) (book chapter: source unknown)
  13. Alternatives to Fossil fueled Engine/Generators (pdf)
  14. FAO - Forestry. FAO's Forestry Department programme on wood energy (website)
  15. Strategic Utilization of Paper/Wood Waste for Biodiesel Fuel (pdf)
  16. Fill up your tank with wood! (pdf)
  17. Georgia Biofuel Directory (pdf)
  18. Task 40 Sustainable Bio-energy Trade;Securing Supply and Demand. (pdf)
  19. Opportunities and barriers for sustainable international bioenergy trade and strategies to overcome them - A report prepared by IEA Bioenergy Task 40. (pdf)
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05-Oct-2009 msb

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