title: Tools and methodologies to support more sustainable biofuel feedstock production.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202, USA. cdragisic@conservation.org
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dragisic
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
authors.forename: Lucio
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bede
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honzák
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Killeen
authors.forename: Adriano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paglia
authors.forename: Bambi
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Semroc
authors.forename: Conrad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Savy
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D056804:Biofuels; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels