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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2012

Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard. Opposed to most previous studies we...

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Integrating bioenergy into computable general equilibrium models: a survey

Kretschmer, Bettina; Peterson, Sonja - 2008

In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...

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Vom Lohn des Wartens und vom Preis der Hast: Anmerkungen zu einer aktivistischen Klimapolitik

Schönfelder, Bruno - 2012

Dieser Aufsatz argumentiert, dass die deutsche EE-Förderung auf einer falschen Konzeption beruht. Sie hat sich vorwiegend befehlswirtschaftlicher Methoden bedient und eine Staatsschuldillusion zu erzeugen versucht. Es verwundert infolgedessen nicht, dass enorme Kosten entstanden sind,...

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Faustmann and the climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of carbon emissions. A contribution of the paper is to do this within theoretical and numerical frameworks that take account of the dynamics and interactions of the forest's multiple...

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Energy security, food security, and economics of sugarcane bioethanol in India

Gunatilake, Herath; Abeygunawardena, Piyasena - 2011

examines the economic feasibility of sugarcane bioethanol in India while considering food security as a competing policy … priority. The analyses show that 20% blending of bioethanol cannot be achieved without affecting food production in India at …, can support up to 5% blending on bioethanol without compromising food production while improving social welfare. Given …

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Cost-Benefit Tests for GHG Emissions from Biofuel Production

de Gorter, Harry - 2015

Biofuel greenhouse gas (GHG)-reduction standards calculated via life-cycle assessment are shown to be biased, even when indirect land-use change is included, because they are based on physical GHG emissions and uptakes and on simple aggregates of balances. We offer a GHG-reduction standard for...

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Biofuels Subsidies and the Green Paradox

Grafton, Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Van Long, Ngo - 2021

This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the substitution to biofuels. Analytical results are derived and...

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The Economics of Biofuels

Lundgren, Tommy; Marklund, Per-Olov; Brannlund, Runar; … - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2 (2008) 3, pp. 237-280

Biofuels are increasingly regarded as energy sources with the potential to solve diverse problems related to serious concerns, including climate change, environmental degradation, energy supply, and energy security. Here we examine biofuels, primarily biofuels used for transportation (e.g.,...

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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - CESifo - 2012

The paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest when there is a social cost of carbon emissions. The theoretical framework takes account of the dynamics and interactions of forests’ multiple carbon pools and assumes an infinite time horizon. Our paper provides a...

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Are There Carbon Savings from US Biofuel Policies? The Critical Importance of Accounting for Leakage in Land and Fuel Markets

Bento, Antonio M.; Klotz, Richard; Landry, Joel - 2015

We develop a multi-market model that integrates land, fuel, and food markets, and link it with an emissions model to …

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