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原文传递 Considering Trade Policies for Liquid Biofuels

题名：	Considering Trade Policies for Liquid Biofuels
责任者：	Kojima, Masami<=>Mitchell, Donald<=>Ward, William
关键词：	Energy；Renewable Energy；Economic Theory and Research；Transport Economics Policy and Planning；Energy；Energy Production and Transportation；Environmental Economics and Policies；Macroeconomics and Economic Growth；Environment；Transport
学科分类：	交通运输规划与管理
摘要：	This report addresses the issues associated with trade in liquid biofuels is a second Energy Sector Management Assistance Program report on biofuels, and part of a broader assessment of bioenergy undertaken by the World Bank. The report asks how liberalizing trade in liquid biofuels might affect biofuel production and consumption. Bioenergy is playing an increasingly important role as an alternative and renewable source of energy. Bioenergy includes solid biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels. Combustion of biomass residues for heat and power generation is commercially viable without government support in some applications. Liquid biofuels made from biomass are attracting growing interest worldwide, driven by concerns about energy security, climate change, and local environmental considerations and a desire to support domestic agriculture. The global liquid biofuel market today utilizes so called first generation technologies and relies mainly on agricultural food or feed crops for feedstock. Second generation biofuels, still far from commercially viable, can open up many new opportunities because they can be sourced from a much wider variety of feedstock's, vastly expanding the potential for fuel production and for abating greenhouse gas emission. The timing of commercialization is uncertain, although some industry analysts indicate that the needed cost reductions may be achieved in the coming decade. Focusing primarily on ethanol and biodiesel, the report takes a time horizon of the next 5 to 10 years. It outlines the important link between agriculture and biofuels, reviews past and present government policies for agriculture and for biofuels, and considers how these policies might affect the world biofuel market. The report highlights the links between the markets for oil, biofuels, feedstock's, and the by-products of biofuel processing. It reviews existing studies, examining the likely consequences of much larger biofuel production and trade liberalization of biofuels and their feedstock's. It concludes with policy considerations.
出版机构：	World Bank
报告类型：	咨询报告
详细地址：	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/9795685/considering-trade-policies-liquid-biofuels
资源类型：	科技（咨询、行业）报告
初始创建时间：	2007-09
最新修改时间：	2017-12-14T05:17:50Z