Essays about: "biofuel debate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words biofuel debate.

1. 1. Literally “powerless” discursive coherence versus performed coherence. Policy coherence for development and the EU as a normative actor driving biofuel production in Mozambique

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Christina Skjolding Hjelm; [2014]
   Keywords : Mozambique; biofuels; Policy coherence for development; legitimacy; energy policy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Lisbon Treaty has made Policy Coherence for Development a legal obligation for the EU, thus the Union’s has a clear institutionalised commitment to makes sure that non-aid policies are not undermining the objectives in the development policy. EU’s energy policy with the 10% target of biofuels in the transport sector have been a point of great debate. READ MORE

3. 2. The Achilles heel of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive sustainability criteria : the policy on biofuel and its limitation to understanding sustainability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Anna-Lena Klassen; [2014]
   Keywords : dominance of GHG accounting; sustainability criteria; Renewable Energy Directive; biofuels; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Within the Renewable Energy Directive, the European Union has embedded sustainability criteria, addressing sustainable biofuels. Due to criticism, the sustainability criteria have been re-examined by the EU in the light of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC). READ MORE

4. 3. Etanol : ett hållbart tankande eller ett kortsiktig tänkande?

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Resource Management

   Author : Erik Backman; [2011]
   Keywords : Drivmedel; biobränsle; skogsråvara;

   Abstract : Ethanol fuel is a biofuel, which been widely reported in the public debate and on the fuel market the last years. Ethanol is sold as both E85 and as a five percent admixture of all petrol sold in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 4. Comparison of Biogas and Bioethanol for Sweden Transportation Fleet

   University essay from KTH/Industriell ekologi

   Author : Elham Ahmadi Moghaddam; [2010]
   Keywords : Biofuel; biogas; ethanol;

   Abstract : Biofuels were recently seen as a solution for the predicaments of our age; the “energy crisis” and the” climate change”. Today biofuels derived from food crops are a subject of debate for food hunger of the world’s poor and one of the main reasons of increased food prices. READ MORE

6. 5. Biofuels - as a Necessary Evil? Report from a Minor Field Study in Kipo, Tanzania

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Ninna Berg; [2008]
   Keywords : Political ecology; Tanzania; Biofuels; Human Ecology; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper gives an introduction to the pro and cons towards biofuel in the current international debate. The thesis is empirically based on fieldwork in Tanzania and presents a specific biofuel investment from the Swedish company SEKAB (Swedish Ethanol Chemistry AB). The location of fieldwork was in the Rufiji District where SEKAB plans to invest. READ MORE