Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1236:
Biokraftstoffe ; Eine weltwirtschaftliche Perspektive
Jan M. Henke
Abstract: Biofuels are promoted by politics in more and more
countries worldwide. This is being justified by positive effects on the
climate, energy, and agricultural policy. The paper describes the current
and future markets for biofuels and the existing biofuel programs in single
countries. It analyzes the great differences between single countries in
the production costs of biofuels compared to fossil fuels and in the
greenhouse gas abatement costs, i.e. the efficiency of using biofuels as a
climate policy option. From an economic and ecological point of view these
country differences ask for the use of global markets for biofuels.
However, this is being prevented by a strong protection of domestic
markets, arguing that international trade in biofuels would conflict with
national agricultural and energy policy goals.
Keywords: Biokraftstoffe, Klimapolitik, Treibhausgasbilanzen, internationaler Handel; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F13,; Q28,; Q42,; Q58; (follow links to similar papers)
35 pages, February 2005
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