4. Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2012
Editor’s Note: It’s been an annual Digest survey — the latest on the mandate front as countries shift their biofuels and greenhouse gas goalposts. 52 countries are in the survey, which is a perennial reader fave, but never ranking higher than this appearance on the US Thanksgiving holiday — and in fact is the first article ever published on a US holiday to make the annual top 10.
In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 52 countries.
The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) specifies a 10 percent renewables content by 2020 but is under significant challenge over food vs fuel and indirect land use change concerns.
13 countries in the Americas have mandates or targets in place, 12 in Asia-Pac, and 8 in Africa.
Besides the EU, the major blending mandates that will drive global demand are those set in the US, China and Brazil – each of which has set targets – or, in the case of Brazil, is already there – at levels in the 15-20 percent range by 2020-2022. India’s fast-growing economy also has a 20 percent ethanol mandate in place for 2017, but the country has a shaky record of implementing mandates, so far.
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