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GCB Bioenergy paper: European biofuel policy will fail to deliver unless ‘iLUC factors’ are added
This study shows that without modification the existing EU biofuels mandate is unlikely to deliver significant carbon benefits. If, however, iLUC factors are included in the policy in future, the policy would be likely to achieve the targeted 50% carbon reductions.
Understanding options for ILUC mitigation
Surveys the existing literature on methodologies related to the certification of low ILUC biofuel projects through different measures. It also assesses the potential challenges, risks, and loopholes that could arise from the use of these methodologies.
Assessing progress towards implementation of the ILUC Directive
Inventory of the status of Member States’ progress on implementing key elements of Directive 2015/1513 amending the RED and FQD as well as the FQD implementing directive (Directive 2015/652).
Low ILUC-risk; high loophole risk?
The idea of ‘low-ILUC risk’ biofuels has been around for a while, and a recent paper identifies the type of regional policies that could allow ILUC to be avoided. But are recent proposals to add the concept to European legislation likely to deliver real benefits, or could they create loopholes that could actually increase ILUC emissions?
The low-ILUC loophole could allow business-as-usual palm oil imports for biodiesel in Europe
The EC will will soon decide on criteria for classifying high- and low-risk indirect land use change (ILUC) biofuels under the RED II. If the Commission gets it right, this provision could make a positive difference without becoming a giant loophole.
Defining low and high ILUC biofuels in European Union policy
Fact sheet regarding the impact of high and low indirect land-use change definitions in European Union renewable fuel policy
A Guide for the Perplexed to the Indirect Effects of Biofuels Production
A detailed but accessible overview of the concept of indirect land use change and the way that ILUC emissions are estimated. Identifies factors that determine the size of ILUC effects when biofuel demand increases and shows how they are handled in the most important models used in the U.S. and EU.
Analysis of high and low indirect land-use change definitions in European Union renewable fuel policy
Assesses evidence for defining high and low indirect land-use change risk biofuel feedstocks in the European renewable fuel policy
A comparison of induced land-use change emissions estimates from energy crops
Finds that ILUC emissions from energy cropping are highly sensitive to assumptions of the composition of marginal lands and suggests that additional sustainability safeguards may be necessary for energy cropping in order to ensure that it only occurs on low-carbon stock land.
It's a jungle out there: iLUC, the Amazon and how to read a map
The Biofuel Digest has decided that iLUC doesn’t exist. Is the iLUC debate over, or is there a different way to understand the data they’ve been looking at?
