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This report forms a component of Chapter 4 of Renewables 2022 and addresses a key question in renewable energy markets.

Several methods are currently used to track the bio‐component of co‐processed fuels including energy/mass balance, yield methods and radiocarbon techniques. The methods used to track or estimate...

Sustainable biofuels are an important tool for the decarbonisation of transport. This is especially true in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors with limited short-term alternatives. Their use by conventional transport...

There are several challenges associated with the introduction of SAF and the market is growing slowly. The aim of these seminars is to highlight best practice examples for the market uptake of SAF...

It covers a gap in the agricultural literature by addressing overlooked topics such as innovation in crops in developing countries, value creation chains and gender roles. Root, tubers...

Rising competition for crop usage presents policy challenges exacerbated by poor understanding of where crops are harvested for various uses. Here we create high-resolution...

The Global Biorefinery Status Report of IEA Bioenergy Task 42 (biorefining) provides an overview of recent biorefinery developments. The report gives a description of the current situation of biorefineries...

Mycotoxin contamination of feed does not only cut across food and feed value chains but compromises animal productivity and health, affecting farmers, traders and consumers...

This building block explores key statistics about competing uses for food system resources, focusing on the use of land, crops and wild fish for feeding humans or feeding...

This dashboard presents the distribution of the bio-based industry (and biorefineries) in the EU, including the following production: bio-based chemicals, liquid biofuels, bio-based composites and fibres, biomethane, pulp&paper...