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Jean Ziegler in 2009 at the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Vienna,
which was occupied by protesting students. He has dismissed crop-based
biofuels as an “affront to humanity”.
should be renewable. Under this law, second-generation biofuels will get a
double credit towards the ten percent target.
Trade and standards
Biofuels can bring economic and social advantages and, with care,
environmental benefits. At present the trade in biofuels is relatively
small. The amount of biofuels that is traded across national boundaries
constitutes only around ten percent of all biofuels produced or consumed
(whereas nearly fifty percent of all oil in the world is traded from one
country to another).
Yet many developing countries would have a comparative advantage in
producing biofuels for export. Furthermore, it would be environmentally
very damaging for, say, Europe or the US to do all the substitution for oil
with home-grown biofuels without regard to the comparative advantage
of countries like Brazil. The European Union's Biofuel Research Advisory
Council estimated in 2006 that “in 2030 EU biomass would hold the
