Sustainability aspects of biofuels
On a global scale, there are three regions that produce biofuels: mainly France and Germany
in Europe, the USA, and Brazil. Each region specialises on a specific crop, and the
production technologies vary greatly. Biodiesel is concentrated in Europe and in 2005 France
and Germany supplied 69% of the global biodiesel. Bioethanol production is concentrated in
two countries: Brazil and the USA and in 2005, they together accounted for 80% of global
ethanol production (Msangi et al. 2007; Zuurbier, 2008). While Brazil's biofuels production
has grown steadily since the 1980s, then in the USA, the production started to hike in 2003
with the Renewable Fuel Standard legislation. In Europe, biofuels production started to rise
in 2005, as depicted on figure 2.
Figure 2. World biofuels production ( F.o. Licht's World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, 2006)
Figure 3. Global biodiesel production projection (USDA, 2012). Biodiesel is mainly
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