全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): How effective are the sustainability criteria accompanying the European Union 2020 biofuel targets?

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01188.x
	How effective are the sustainability criteria accompanying the European Union 2020 biofuel targets?
	Bottcher H; Havlik P; Mosnier A; Schmid E; Elbersen B
发表日期	2013
出处	GCB Bioenergy 5 (3): 306-314
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	The expansion of biofuel production can lead to an array of negative environmental impacts. Therefore the European Union (EU) has recently imposed sustainability criteria on biofuel production in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED. In this article, we analyse the effectiveness of the sustainability criteria for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. We first use a global agriculture and forestry model to investigate environmental effects of the EU member states National Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAPs) without sustainability criteria. We conclude that these targets would drive losses of 2.2 Mha of highly biodiverse areas and generate 95 Mt CO2 eq of additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, in a second step, we demonstrate that the EU biofuel demand could be satisfied "sustainably" according to RED despite its negative environmental effects. This is because the majority of global crop production is produced sustainably in the sense of RED and can provide more than 10 times the total European biofuel demand in 2020 if reallocated from sectors without sustainability criteria. This finding points to a potential policy failure of applying sustainability regulation to a single sector in a single region. To be effective this policy needs to be more complete in targeting a wider scope of agricultural commodities and more comprehensive in its membership of countries.
主题	Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)
关键词	Biodiversity Biofuels GHG emissions Land use change Modelling Renewable energy directive Sustainability criteria
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10458/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/129773
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bottcher H,Havlik P,Mosnier A,et al. How effective are the sustainability criteria accompanying the European Union 2020 biofuel targets?. 2013.