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Tools and methodologies to support more sustainable biofuel feedstock production

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Increasingly, government regulations, voluntary standards, and company guidelines require that biofuel production complies with sustainability criteria. For some stakeholders, however, compliance with these criteria may seem complex, costly, or unfeasible. What exiting tools, then, might facilitate compliance with a variety of biofuel-related sustainability criteria? This paper presents four existing tools and methodologies that can help stakeholders assess (and mitigate) potential risks associated with feedstock production, and can thus facilitate compliance with requirements under different requirement systems. These include the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), the ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services (ARIES) tool, the Responsible Cultivation Areas (RCA) methodology, and the related Biofuels + Forest Carbon (Biofuel + FC) methodology.

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  1. The REDD market is currently entirely voluntary, though this may change in the future.

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    Christine Dragisic, Erica Ashkenazi, Lucio Bede, Miroslav Honzák, Tim Killeen, Adriano Paglia, Bambi Semroc & Conrad Savy

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This article is based on a presentation at the 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals.

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Dragisic, C., Ashkenazi, E., Bede, L. et al. Tools and methodologies to support more sustainable biofuel feedstock production. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 38, 371–374 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-010-0858-7

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