Biofuels Briefings

 

•  Biofuel Watch briefing on aviation biofuels Feb 2011  

•  IATA presentation on aviation biofuels Dec 2010   

•  Greenpeace Briefing on Aviation and Biofuels (Nov 2009)  

•  Some information on jatropha as an aviation fuel (Jan 2009) 

•  Aviation Biofuels – Biofuelwatch briefing March 2009   

•  Aviation and Biofuels presentation – by Deepak Rughani, March 2009 

•  Aviation and Biofuels presentation – by Deepak Rughani (without slides, so smaller)

 
 

Biofuels for aviation – publications and reports

 

Three short AirportWatch briefings on Biofuels and Aviation 

(August 2011)

Biofuels and Aviation (1)        

 

 

“Flying in the face of the facts – Greenwashing the aviation industry with biofuels” 

Report by Friends of the Earth, Europe.  June 2011   14 pages.

Flying in the face of the facts    

and on the FoE Europe website at link

 

 

 Jatropha

Some information on jatropha as an aviation fuel (Jan 2009) 

from the Guardian and other sources

 

“Greening of  Aviation” 

Text of Biofuelwatch presentation to AirportWatch conference)

by Deepak Rughani   7 pages

 

 

Biofuels for Aviation: More Future Land Grabbing and Deforestation for Agrofuels to Justify Today’s Airport Expansion?

Biofuelwatch   6 pages

Aviation Biofuels – Biofuelwatch briefing March 2009   

 

IATA – Aviation industry point of view

IATA presentation on aviation biofuels Dec 2010   20 pages

 

SWAFEA final report    July 2011

The Sustainable Way for Alternative Fuels and Energy for Aviation report, submitted to the European Commission, gives details of how they propose European aviation can get up to 2% of biofuels by 2020. They claim “sustainable” biofuel, in huge amounts, can be sourced.  On aviation industry emissions reduction targets, the study finds that stabilisation of emissions at 2020 levels – using biofuels – would probably take well beyond 2030.and it sees some of the problems.

 The report (111 pages) is at

 

 

 Biofuel Assessment – Prepared for Tesco

 by Kevin Lister, 2007

This report takes a high level overview on the impact of biofuels on the environment and the economy through a meta analysis of the main reports and data sources that have been issued from bodies such as the World Bank, the UK government and other key academic sources.   Biofuel Assessment