Article ID: | iaor20128490 |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 7-8 |
Start Page Number: | 166 |
End Page Number: | 169 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Linares Pedro, Prez-Arriaga Ignacio J |
Keywords: | Europe, European Union, public policy, biofuel |
Biofuels are a key component of the EU strategy to improve the efficiency in transport. However, several difficulties have been identified regarding the long‐term sustainability of the European Commission's Policy around biofuels. This paper presents a summary of the discussions held in the BP Forum on Energy and Sustainability, in which more than 30 international experts put forward their proposals for improving current policies for biofuels in Europe.