This report assesses the potential effectiveness of market-based instruments in ensuring that biofuel feedstock development does not expand in detriment…
Authors: Pacheco, P.; German, L.; van Gelder, J.W.; Weinberger, K.; Guariguata, M.R.
Books
Policies and institutional and legal frameworks in the expansion of Brazilian biofuels
Publication Year : 2011
This paper maps out and analyses the wide range of policies and players that have shaped the phenomenal rise of…
Authors: Andrade, R.M.T.; Miccolis, A.
Financing household tree plantations in Vietnam: Current programmes and future options
Publication Year : 2011
A review of environmental issues in the context of biofuel sustainability frameworks
Publication Year : 2011
With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting this expansion, concerns about…
Authors: Guariguata, M.R.; Masera, O.R.; Johnson, F.X.; von Maltitz, G.; Bird, N.; Tella, P.; Martínez-Bravo, R.
A global analysis of deforestation due to biofuel development
Publication Year : 2011
This report examines whether the recent increase in biofuel feedstock production is resulting in increased deforestation rates and magnitudes within…
Authors: Gao, Y.; Skutsch, M.; Masera, O.; Pacheco, P.
Chinese trade and investment and the forests of the Congo Basin: Synthesis of scoping studies in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon
Publication Year : 2011
Since 2000 and the implementation of Chinas going abroad policy, mainland Chinese state-owned and private companies have significantly increased their…
Authors: Putzel, L.; Assembe Mvondo, S.; Ndong, L.B.B.; Banioguila, R.P.; Cerutti, P.O.; Tieguhong, J.C.; Djeukam, R.; Kabuyaya, N.; Lescuyer, G.; Mala, W.A.
Ecosystem services certification: Opportunities and constraints
Publication Year : 2011
A major challenge in trading ecosystem services is the need to quantify and commoditise services, for monitoring and verification as…
Authors: Meijaard, E.; Sheil, D.; Guariguata, M.R.; Nasi, R.; Sunderland, T.C.H.; Putzel, L.
Assessing opportunities and constraints for biofuel development in sub-Saharan Africa
Publication Year : 2011
Sustainable biofuel production should provide opportunities for sub-Saharan African countries and their inhabitants, especially in impoverished rural areas. Biofuel feedstock…
Authors: von Maltitz, G.; Staffor, W.