Opportunities and barriers for international bioenergy trade

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2028-2042

  Junginger, Martin ^a   van Dam, Jinke ^e   Zarrilli, Simonetta ^b   Ali Mohamed, Fatin ^c   Marchal, Didier ^d   Faaij, Andre ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b United Nations Conference on Trade and Development   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e Jinke van Dam Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Bioenergy trade; Wood pellets

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; BIOENERGY TRADE; CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; IMPORT TARIFF; INTERNET BASED; POLICY MAKERS; TECHNICAL STANDARDS; TRADE AGREEMENTS; WOOD PELLET; WOOD PELLETS; WORK FOCUS;

BIODIESEL; BIOETHANOL; ETHANOL; FOSSIL FUELS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PELLETIZING; STANDARDIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOOD;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOENERGY; COMMODITY MARKET; DIESEL; ENERGY MARKET; GAS TRADE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

CLIMATES; DATA PROCESSING; FOREIGN TRADE; FOSSIL FUELS; MARKETING; PELLETING; STANDARDS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

EUROPE;

EID: 79952311086     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.01.040     Document Type: Article

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