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Other Standards  
The Sustainability of Biofuels — Limits of the Meta-Standard Approach
Setting a Quality Standard for Fuel Ethanol

Benefits of biofuels  
Using modern bioenergy to reduce rural poverty
The importance of biofuels, Luiz Carlos Corrêa Carvalho 2005

Sustainability issues  
Sustainable bioenergy: Framework for decision makers, UN-Energy
Bioenergy sustainability principles
EU Sustainability criteria for biofuels — Consolidated texts
Sustainability standards, OEKO (2006) WWF
Pathways to sustainable and poverty eradication
Potential of sustainable liquid biofuel production in Rwanda
Roundtable on responsible soy (RTRS)
RSB Principles and criteria for sustainable biofuel production
RSPO Principles and criteria for sustainable palm oil production
RSPO Supply chain certification systems
Standardized initiatives towards sustainable biomass certification
Sustainability criteria & certification systems for biomass production
Sustainability criteria for biomass and biofuels
Sustainable bioenergy and food security
Verification of compliance with sustainability criteria for biofuels and bioliquids
Global principles and criteria for sustainable biofuels production, V 0.0
Blueprint Germany: A strategy for a climate-safe 2050
Sustainability quick check for biofuels (SQCB)
Criteria for a sustainable use of bioenergy on a global scale
Criteria for sustainable biomass production

Driving legislations and targets  
Directive 2009/28/EC, Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 - A Summary of major provisions
Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) - Notice of final rulemaking
Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) Summary & analysis of comments

Economics of biofuels  
The impact of sustainability criteria on the costs and potentials of bioenergy production
Jatropha: Money does not grow on trees!
Impacts of the EU biofuel target on agricultural markets and land use
Extractive industries and Millenium Development Goals for Sub-Saharan Africa
Biofuels production, trade and sustainable development
Challenges and opportunities for developing countries in producing biofuels 

Impact of bioenergy on food security  
Bioenergy and food security: Analytical framework
Bioenergy and global food security
Biofuels and food security: Implications of an accelerated production
Bioenergy, food security and sustainability: Towards an international framework
Will bioenergy development pose a threat to food security in developing countries?
Second FAO technical consultation on bioenergy & food security
The right to food and the impact of liquid biofuels
Price volatility in food and agricultural markets — Policy responses
PISCES food security scoping study
Call for scientific statement on bioenergy and food security
Bioenergy and food security: Analysis for Tanzania
Biofuels and the underlying causes of high food prices
Food Security in Brazil

Do biofuels mitigate GHG emissions?  
Accounting for ILUC in GHG balances of biofuels
Use of US croplands for biofuels increases GHGs through emissions from land use change  
Executive Summary — Understanding land use change and U.S. ethanol expansion  
Quantification of the effects on greenhouse gas emissions of policies and measures  
ILUC can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil  
Flying in the face of the facts: Greenwashing the aviation industry with biofuels  
Ethanol expansion and indirect land use change in Brazil  
Biofuels in 2011
Climate Change and Water, IPPC Tec Paper VI, 2008  
Corn ethanol and climate change 

Land use change & indirect land use change  
Tackling Indirect Land Use
"Sustainable" palm oil driving deforestation
Supporting materials for use of U.S. croplands for biofuels increases greenhouse gases through emissions from land use change
Sugar cane and land use change in Brazil
Soy oil and indirect land use change
Indirect land use change from increased biofuels demand — Comparison of models
Indirect land use change for biofuels
GBEP workshop on idirect land use change - Status of and perspectives on science-based policies
Biofuels: Indirect land use change and climate impact 

Indirect effects of bioenergy  
Indirect effects of bioenergy: Effects on landscapes and livelihoods

Bioenergy fuelling land grabs  
Africa up for grabs — The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels
Rising global interest in farmland: Can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?
The socio-economic effects of GM-crops
Who benefits from GM crops - an industry built on myths 

Second generation biofuels
Second-generation biofuels - Economics and policies
Role of lignocellulosic feedstocks