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Biodiesel from jatropha has been considered as a promising alternative to fossil fuels for some time. Consequently … biodiesel industry also gained interest. However, the excitement of the biofuel industry in jatropha faded after it did not … biodiesel in China, using two detailed case studies of jatropha biofuel production in southeast China. It is found that the …
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innovation has been elaborated and applied to the agricultural valley of Cháparra in the South of Peru. The results allow for an …
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Dieser Arbeitsbericht analysiert die Stoffströme des deutschen Biokraftstoffsektors für das Jahr 2007. Zahlreiche Statistiken wurden ausgewertet, um prozentuale Aussagen treffen zu können wie viel Rohstoffe in die Biokraftstoffproduktion und weitere energetische Verwendungen floss im...
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within the EU. In a recent working paper, we analyze the GHG emissions savings potential of rapeseed biodiesel. For this … purpose, we ran a life cycle assessment of rapeseed biodiesel using the same basic methodology and background data contained …. In most of the scenarios, rapeseed biodiesel does not reach the GHG emissions saving values using the formula contained …
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With this paper, we provide the first quantitative investigation of vertical price transmission in the biodiesel supply … chain in Germany with the focus on the developments during the food crisis and the impact of subsidized US biodiesel exports …. With the strong promotion of the production and use of biodiesel during the first half of the past decade, the German …
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This paper provides a general overview of the social, environmental, and economical issues related to biofuels and a review of economic modeling of biofuels. The increasing importance of biofuels is driven primarily by government policies since currently available biofuels are generally not...
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of rapeseed biodiesel greenhouse gas (GHG) savings. In light of the recent effort to decentralize assessments to regional … biodiesel), Poland and Romania, we analyse the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings of rapeseed biodiesel which we then … emissions, German rapeseed biodiesel meets the GHG savings requirements of 35 percent in the RED. However, in years with …
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The article analyses the Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso do Biodiesel (PNPB), an agro-energy policy with social …'s arrangement in the accomplishment of two goals: the creation of the biodiesel market and the social inclusion in the productive …
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In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices in Germany and study their dynamics over time. We propose an econometric approach to quantify the volatility and correlation risk structure, which has a large impact...
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-correction analysis of fuel-food commodity price level co-movement towards inclusion of biodiesel and ethanol prices directly into …
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