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International Trade In Biofuels: Legal And Regulatory Issues, Jeremy De Beer, Stuart Smyth
International Trade In Biofuels: Legal And Regulatory Issues, Jeremy De Beer, Stuart Smyth
Jeremy de Beer
Governments around the world are betting heavily on biofuels as one part of a solution to a wide range of public policy challenges, from environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, to energy security given rising geopolitical instability, to economic growth especially in rural regions and developing countries. Policy interventions typically take the form of legal and regulatory measures, for example, to drive demand for renewable fuels through mandates, or to subsidize costs through financial and other supports for production and processing of feedstock and output fuels. Such complex legal/regulatory mechanisms combine to create a multi-level or network system …