Level 3 - Source on Liquid Biofuels for Transport

• 1. What are biofuels?
  • 1.1 What is bioenergy?
  • 1.2 What are the different types of liquid biofuels for transport?
  • 1.3 What are second-generation biofuels?
  • 1.4 How much liquid biofuel could be produced?
• 2. What are the economic and policy factors influencing biofuel development?
  • 2.1 How are agricultural, energy and biofuels markets linked?
  • 2.2 What are the drivers of biofuel policies?
  • 2.3 What policy measures are influencing biofuel development?
  • 2.4 How costly are biofuel policies?
  • 2.5 How viable are liquid biofuels?
• 3. How are biofuel markets and production evolving?
  • 3.1 How are prices for agricultural products evolving?
  • 3.2 How is biofuel production expected to evolve in the future?
  • 3.3 What are the impacts of biofuel policies on international markets and trade?
• 4. What are the environmental impacts of biofuel production?
  • 4.1 Can biofuels help mitigate climate change?
  • 4.2 What changes to agricultural land would biofuel production require?
  • 4.3 How will biofuel production affect water resources?
  • 4.4 How will biofuel production affect soils?
  • 4.5 How will biofuel production affect biodiversity?
  • 4.6 How could an environmentally sustainable biofuel production be ensured?
• 5. How will biofuel production affect food security and poverty?
  • 5.1 What will be the short-term impacts on food security?
  • 5.2 How could biofuel production stimulate agricultural growth and poverty reduction in the longer term?
  • 5.3 How could biofuel production affect income distribution and women’s status?
• 6. How could biofuel policies be improved?
  • 6.1 What are the challenges of biofuel policies?
  • 6.2 What principles should guide biofuel policies?
  • 6.3 How could policies ensure environmental and social sustainability?
• 7. Conclusions
  • 7.1 Do biofuels threaten food security?
  • 7.2 Can biofuels help promote agricultural development?
  • 7.3 Can biofuels help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
  • 7.4 Do biofuels threaten land, water and biodiversity?
  • 7.5 Can biofuels help achieve energy security?