Target Audience: Researchers and practitioners in the field of renewable energies and biofuels
Objectives:
To debate the main issues around sustainability of using biofuels in
energy systems, with a specific emphasis on competition with food
supply and prices at global level
Format: Presentation(s) and debate Language:
English
The use of renewables like wood as energy source is a very old
strategy. However, during the last 150 years there has been a
tremendous increase of consumption of fossile energy carriers like
coal, gas and oil. But, as it is to be expected, non-renewables sooner
or later are consumed. This seems to happen at the moment, and the
situation becomes even more difficult, since the demand for energy of
developing countries is strongly increasing at the same time. All theee
factors make the price of energy grow faster and faster. In this
situation interest in renewables is coming back, especially in the
industrialised countries. But not only “old” sources like wood are in
the focus. As long as organic materials in waste are used, there is no
problem either. But more and more the hunger for energy goes so fare
that even traditional food sources are converted into energy. So the
question is not far away, whether the rich of our planet burn the food
of the poor ones, especially for maintaining their mobility behaviour. In this workshop, questions around an appropriate strategy for alternative energy sources (biofuels) are discussed.
Research for Sustainable Development - full paper (DIN-A4) - 68 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development - abstract (DIN-A5) - 20 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development_short.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development
