Titlebook: Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean; Barry D. Solomon,Robert Bailis Book 2014 Springer Science+Business

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International Sustainability Standards and Certification, of voluntary certification standards under its meta-standard in order to safeguard sustainability of its mandated biofuel demand. Advantages and disadvantages of this novel, hybrid governance arrangement have been widely discussed. In order to fully understand the implications of this international

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Brazil: Ethanol,t it is now largely self-sufficient and cost-competitive with gasoline. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the last few years have seen Brazil change from a major ethanol exporter to an importer from the USA due to reductions in sugarcane agriculture and in ethanol production. Among starch and sugar cr

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Brazil: Biodiesel, three “fundamental pillars”: social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and economic viability. The majority of the nation’s biodiesel is derived from soy, which raises problems for both social inclusion and environmental sustainability. Soy has been implicated in destruction of Amazon and Cer

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Colombia,s for measuring the sustainability of biofuels through specific criteria and indicators. This paper examines different sets of indicators proposed by two MSI for bioenergy, Bonsucro and the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP), and the challenges in operationalizing them to measure environmental sust

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Guatemala,g biofuel policies and programs, including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This chapter provides an introduction to the biofuels sector in Central America, before focusing on Guatemala, which has been identified as the strongest potential leader in Central America for the production,

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Mexico,omoting rural development. However, although the Mexican government constructed a legal and regulatory framework for their introduction, it has so far failed to develop the specific policies, programs, and market conditions that would ensure biofuel production and commercialization. As a result, Mex