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4 - Biofuels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

Stefan Renckens
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University of Toronto
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The chapter explains how and why the EU has intervened with both standards and procedural regulations in the case of biofuels production, first in 2009 and again in 2015. The chapter begins with an analysis of the emergence of private biofuels governance since the early 2000s. It then discusses how in 2003 the EU established a policy stimulating the development of a domestic crop-based biofuels market based on the expected economic and environmental benefits of biofuels, while not directly addressing private governance. Once it became clear that the sustainability of biofuels needed to be regulated, the EU established standards and procedural regulations in the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive. Developing sustainability criteria was considered necessary to further support the economic opportunities of farmers and biofuels producers. The diversity of biofuel certification schemes also warranted EU-level control, with policymakers considering them useful instruments to verify compliance with public sustainability criteria in the form of a meta-standard approach. Continued problems with the diversity of private schemes resulted in additional procedural regulation in the 2015 ILUC Directive.

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Private Governance and Public Authority
Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy
, pp. 94 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Biofuels
  • Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto
  • Book: Private Governance and Public Authority
  • Online publication: 02 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108781015.004
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  • Biofuels
  • Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto
  • Book: Private Governance and Public Authority
  • Online publication: 02 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108781015.004
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  • Biofuels
  • Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto
  • Book: Private Governance and Public Authority
  • Online publication: 02 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108781015.004
Available formats
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