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IFPRI, 2010

Global trade and environmental impact study of the EU biofuels mandate

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The primary objective of this study is to analyse the impact of possible changes in EU biofuels trade policies on global agricultural production and the environmental performance of the EU biofuel policy as concretised in the RED. The study pays particular attention to the ILUC effects, and the associated emissions, of the main feedstocks used for first-generation biofuels production. This is the only study, out of the four launched by the Commission, that uses a global computable general equilibrium model (CGE) to estimate the impact of EU biofuels policies, in this case an extensively modified version of the existing MIRAGE model. Primary among major methodological innovations introduced in the model is the new modeling of energy demand which allows for substitutability between different sources of energy, including biofuels. The underlying global Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database has been extended to separately identify ethanol (with four subsectors), biodiesel, five additional feedstock crops sectors, four vegetable oils sectors, fertilizers, and the transport fuel sectors. The report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions (focusing on CO2) associated with direct and indirect land use changes as generated by the model for the year 2020, and separately quantify the marginal ILUC for each feedstock crop.

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