Biofuels, Biodiversity and Climate Change
As part of the 8th annual colloquium of the Academy, held in Ghent, Belgium in September 2010, two panels were devoted to the study of law and regulations regarding biofuels.
Plenary 1:
Zen Makuch, Imperial College London (UK), How Valid is the Promotion of Agrofuels by Reference to Ecosystem Conservation and Environmental Protection: An Evaluation of UK and French Law and Policy in an EU Context
Panel 14: Biofuels I
Chair: Melissa Powers, Lewis and Clark University (USA)
- Liselotte Smorenburg-van Middelkoop, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Sustainability Criteria by the EU: Do they Provide the Legal Solution to the Devil’s Dilemma of Bioenergy?
- Michael I. Jeffery, University of Western Sydney, and Xiabao Zhao, PhD candidate, University of Western Sydney (Australia), Will Biodiversity Pay the Price? The Case for and against the Use of Biofuels and Biochar to Aid in the Mitigation of Climate Change
- Alexandrina Sobreira de Moura, Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Brazil), The Biodiesel Program and Sustainable Development in Brazil
- Vladimir Magalhaes, Catholic University of Santos (Brazil), Biofuels: The Risks to Brazilian Biodiversity and their Interaction with Global Warming
- Victor M. Tafur, Pace University (USA), Linkages between Biodiversity and Bioenergy: Inclusive Market Development
Panel 27: Energy II/ Biofuels II
Chair: Melissa Powers, Lewis and Clark University (USA)
- José Rubens Morato Leite, Délton Winter de Carvalho, Matheus Almeida Caetano, Silvana do Prada Brouwers and Maria Leonor Paes Cavalcani Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Biofuels (Ethanol): an Analysis of the Environmental Rule of Law in the Risk Society
- Heline Sivïni Ferreira, Universidade Federa; de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Maria Leonor Paes Cavalcani Ferreira, PhD Candidate, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), and Patryck de Arújo Ayala, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (Brazil), Climate Change, Biofuels and Biodiversity in Brazil: the Need to Protect the Amazon Forest against Potential Damages related to the Sugarcane Monoculture
- Carolina Dutra, Simone Lavelle Godoy de Oliveira, Mauricio Duarte dos Santos and Sergio Madureira Vaz, University Center UNIMONTE and Catholic University of Santos (Brazil), Global Environmental Governance and Biofuels: Addressing Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation Issues?