TY - BOOK ID - 8355071 TI - Biofuels : linking support to performance AU - International Transport Forum. AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - Transport Research Centre. PY - 2008 SN - 1281720097 9786611720094 9282101800 9282101797 9789282101797 PB - Paris : OECD Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Biomass energy. KW - Greenhouse gases. KW - Biomass energy KW - Chemical & Materials Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Chemical Engineering KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Bio-energy (Biomass energy) KW - Bioenergy (Biomass energy) KW - Biofuels KW - Biological fuels KW - Energy, Biomass KW - Microbial energy conversion KW - Energy conversion KW - Fuel KW - Energy crops KW - Microbial fuel cells KW - Refuse as fuel KW - Waste products as fuel KW - Biomass energy - Environmental aspects KW - Biomass energy - OECD countries KW - Biomass as fuel KW - Renewable fuels KW - Renewable energy sources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8355071 AB - 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 fact, much of the current ethanol and biodiesel production may result in higher overall emissions of greenhouse gases than using conventional transport fuels - gasoline and diesel. The papers published in this report examine the economics of biofuels and assess the potential of conventional biofuel production in OECD countries, Brazilian ethanol exports and some second generation biofuels to supply world markets with transport fuels. This Round Table analyses the critical issues for governments in determining support for biofuels, particularly the level of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life-cycle of these fuels and the wider environmental impacts of farming biomass. It also reviews recent progress in developing certification systems for biofuels – an essential tool for tying support to achievement in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, although certification cannot be expected to prevent rainforest destruction for the development of biofuel crop plantations. The report concludes with a short list of recommendations for policy reform if support for biofuels is to contribute effectively to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. ER -