Biofuels in the long-run global energy supply mix for transportation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2006, 2014, Pages

  Timilsina, Govinda R ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Future energy demand; Global energy supply; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; FOOD SUPPLY; OILS AND FATS; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION;

BIOFUELS PRODUCTION; FUTURE ENERGIES; GLOBAL ENERGY; GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS; GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL;

ANIMAL; CATERING SERVICE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLICY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; FUTURE ENERGY DEMAND; GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOFUELS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SUPPLY; INTERNATIONALITY; POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

BIOFUELS; FUTURE ENERGY DEMAND; GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84890521240     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0323     Document Type: Article

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