Tools and methodologies to support more sustainable biofuel feedstock production.
Increasingly, government regulations, voluntary standards, and company guidelines require that biofuel production complies with sustainability criteria. For some stakeholders, however, compliance with these criteria may seem complex, costly, or unfeasible. What existing tools, then, might facilitate compliance with a variety of biofuel-related sustainability criteria? This paper presents four existing tools and methodologies that can help stakeholders assess (and mitigate) potential risks associated with feedstock production, and can thus facilitate compliance with requirements under different requirement systems. These include the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), the ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services (ARIES) tool, the Responsible Cultivation Areas (RCA) methodology, and the related Biofuels + Forest Carbon (Biofuel + FC) methodology.
Dragisic
Christine
C
Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202, USA. cdragisic@conservation.org
Ashkenazi
Erica
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Bede
Lucio
L
Honzák
Miroslav
M
Killeen
Tim
T
Paglia
Adriano
A
Semroc
Bambi
B
Savy
Conrad
C
D044822:Biodiversity; D056804:Biofuels; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*
D056804:Biofuels