Biofuels Policy Challenges

Abstract

Biofuels policies — and biofuels policy-makers — face considerable challenges in delivering on existing policy goals, let alone looking to expand biofuels markets. In this chapter, we focus on three of these challenges, two of which have been central to the biofuels debate in recent years, the third notable for being largely absent. The first two policy challenges — food v. fuel and ILUC — arise from the implementation of biofuels policies. Moreover, they have similar underpinnings, in that they result from the complexity and interconnectedness of the markets wherein biofuels are produced.