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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
External Dimensions to Biofuels Policies
Authors : Robert Ackrill, Adrian Kay
Published in: The Growth of Biofuels in the 21st Century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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One of the consistent themes to have emerged from our interviews for this project was that biofuels policies, initially, were established as domestic policies. Over time, however, as biofuels policies have stimulated growth in biofuels markets, external dimensions have come increasingly to the fore of the policy debate, as analysed in Chapter 6 and, in particular, Chapter 7. As Part I demonstrated, as a domestic construct only EU policy has had a significant external dimension to it, given the need for imports to enable the EU to deliver on its policy mandates. Other policies did not preclude trade, but nor did they include imports as a core dimension of delivery on the (domestic) policy. That said, interviews revealed that Brazil’s government has sought to promote the development of an international market in biofuels, within which biofuels can be traded freely, just like other commodities.