The seesaw of Germany's biofuel policy – Tracing the evolvement to its current state

Kaup, Felix; Selbmann, Kirsten

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.024

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“…As long as no high taxes on fossil resources or high charges on climate gas emissions have been introduced, many new material and energetic uses of biomass will not be competitive and will continue to depend on political decisions about support and framework conditions. In the past, political support was unstable and changed within short periods of time, as for example shown for the German biofuel policy [156]. Probably, the definition of level playing field and decisions on what biomass uses to support will remain contested.…”

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Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

Meyer

2017

Sustainability

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Over the last decade, bioeconomy policies, guided by integrated bioeconomy strategies, have developed. This paper presents a systematic and comparative analysis of official bioeconomy strategies of the EU, Germany, OECD, Sweden and the USA with regard to their context, visions and guiding implementation principles. In an additional step, the relationship between these strategies and important scientific and societal debates around bioeconomy is assessed. In conclusion, five major stumbling blocks for the further development of the bioeconomy are worked out. First, there is the risk of disappointment because far-reaching promises of the strategies are difficult to achieve. Second, the bioeconomy is not the only way to a low carbon economy so alternatives could impede the desired development. Third, persistent conflicts between the different uses of biomass for food, material and energy production could lead to unstable policy support with short-term shifts. Fourth, a broader success of new bioeconomy value chains could trigger new societal conflicts over bioeconomy if efficiency gains, cascading use, residue use and sustainability certification are not sufficient to ensure a sustainable supply of biomass. Fifth, the acceptance of bioeconomy could be compromised if bioeconomy policies continue to ignore the on-going societal debates on agriculture and food.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

Meyer

2017

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“…1/5; female Kaup and Selbmann (2013), Venghaus and Selbmann (2014), Selbmann (2015) http://www.kooperationinternational.de/detail/info/ verbundprojekt-biofuel-as-socialfuel-biokraftstoffe-als-sozialertreibstoff-einer-nachhaltigen-en. html career research groups is to promote scientific qualification in TSS (e.g., through Ph.…”

Section: Biofuel As Social Fuelmentioning

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Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Ruppert-Winkel¹,

Arlinghaus²,

Deppisch³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Transdisciplinary sustainability science (TSS) is a prominent way of scientifically contributing to the solution of sustainability problems. Little is known, however, about the practice of scientists in TSS, especially those early in their career. Our objectives were to identify these practices and to outline the needs and challenges for early career scientists in TSS. To that end, we compiled 10 key characteristics of TSS based on a literature survey. We then analyzed research groups with 81 early career scientists against these characteristics. All of these research groups are funded by an ongoing federally funded German program for socialecological research whose main feature is to promote sustainability-oriented inter-and transdisciplinary research. We found that the practices of the 12 groups generally correspond with the characteristics for TSS, although there is ample variation in how they were addressed. Three major challenges were identified: (1) TSS demands openness to a plurality of research designs, theories, and methods, while also requiring shared, explicit, and recursive use of TSS characteristics; (2) researchers in TSS teams must make decisions about trade-offs between achievements of societal and scientific impact, acknowledging that focusing on the time-consuming former aspect is difficult to integrate into a scientific career path; and (3) although generalist researchers are increasingly becoming involved in such TSS research projects, supporting the integration of social, natural, and engineering sciences, specialized knowledge is also required.

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“…The study of the German biodiesel supply chain presented above extends the analysis done by [15] by shedding light on new mechanisms that drive the behavior of the system such as the coevolution between individual behavior and system behavior. Moreover, in the previous studies on the Car as Power Plant case, the focus of analysis remains on the technical aspects as in [22], [23], [27], where the operation may be optimized by forcing drivers to follow system needs.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Biodiesel production grew exponentially from 1997 onwards. Whereas in 1998 German production capacity was 65000 t/y, by 2006 it had grown to 3.5 million t/y [14], [15]. Governmental interventions, such as introduction of standard certifications and a single payment scheme, and rising oil prices have contributed to this growth in German biodiesel production [16].…”

Section: Biodiesel Production In Germanymentioning

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Complex Systems Engineering: designing in sociotechnical systems for the energy transition

Escudero¹,

Guerrero²,

Lee³

et al. 2017

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The EU has set ambitious targets for an energy transition. While research often focuses on technology, institutions or actors, a transition requires complex coordination and comprehensive analysis and design. We propose a framework accounting for technology, institutions and actors' perspective to design in socio-technical systems. We present its application, firstly, to biodiesel production in Germany; secondly, to vehicle-to-grid contracts in a Car as a Power Plant microgrid. We show how using the framework as the core in modelling can contribute to the performance improvement of these systems. Future work will elaborate on the next generation of thermal energy systems, coordination control of microgrids and implementing flexibility through demand response aggregation. Overall, designing solutions to the problems described calls for comprehensive engineers who look beyond the technical design and deal with multi actor socio-political processes including institutional consideration.

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The seesaw of Germany's biofuel policy – Tracing the evolvement to its current state

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Complex Systems Engineering: designing in sociotechnical systems for the energy transition

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