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Chapter 13
Key Strategies for Policymakers
Shinichi Arai and Hirotaka Matsuda
13.1 Strategy Options at the Global Level
13.1.1 Background for Sustainable Deployment Strategies
and Response Measures
Biofuels
1
have been identified as having diverse environmental, social, and economic impacts, as discussed in Chap. 2. For this reason, the use of biofuels to realize
a sustainable society requires study that takes into account the respective characteristics of biofuel deployment on a global, regional, national, and local scale. In this
chapter, we examine deployment strategies for sustainable biofuels on a global scale
by surveying the current and future issues that need to be considered. These issues
include environmental impacts starting with the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from biofuels and including other issues such as energy security, food
security, rural development, agriculture and industrial policy, trade, and north-south
issues. We then examine ways that biofuel deployment strategies can address these
issues to realize a sustainable society.
1 In this chapter, “biofuels” refer to liquid fuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel, including secondgeneration biofuels such as those derived by decomposing cellulose. Fuelwood and other biomass
and gas recovery through conventional means such as methane fermentation of waste are excluded.
However, “bioenergy” includes conventional biomass energy such as from fuelwood.
S. Arai
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
N10W5, Sapporo 060-0810, Hokkaido, Japan
H. Matsuda (*)
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI),
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences/Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science
(IR3S), Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
e-mail: matsuda@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2018
K. Takeuchi et al. (eds.), Biofuels and Sustainability, Science for Sustainable
Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54895-9_13
Chapter 13
Key Strategies for Policymakers
Shinichi Arai and Hirotaka Matsuda
13.1 Strategy Options at the Global Level
13.1.1 Background for Sustainable Deployment Strategies
and Response Measures
Biofuels
1
have been identified as having diverse environmental, social, and economic impacts, as discussed in Chap. 2. For this reason, the use of biofuels to realize
a sustainable society requires study that takes into account the respective characteristics of biofuel deployment on a global, regional, national, and local scale. In this
chapter, we examine deployment strategies for sustainable biofuels on a global scale
by surveying the current and future issues that need to be considered. These issues
include environmental impacts starting with the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from biofuels and including other issues such as energy security, food
security, rural development, agriculture and industrial policy, trade, and north-south
issues. We then examine ways that biofuel deployment strategies can address these
issues to realize a sustainable society.
1 In this chapter, “biofuels” refer to liquid fuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel, including secondgeneration biofuels such as those derived by decomposing cellulose. Fuelwood and other biomass
and gas recovery through conventional means such as methane fermentation of waste are excluded.
However, “bioenergy” includes conventional biomass energy such as from fuelwood.
S. Arai
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
N10W5, Sapporo 060-0810, Hokkaido, Japan
H. Matsuda (*)
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI),
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences/Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science
(IR3S), Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
e-mail: matsuda@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp