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Preliminary Plan for the Doctoral Thesis: the Role and Function of Law as the Promoter of the Sustainable Use of Bio-fuels in the Transport Sector
(2008)
  • Evgenia Pavlovskaia
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Abstract

The paper contains the preliminary plan of the doctoral thesis made in 2008. It explains that the purpose of the project is to analyze the use of the law as a means to implement the sustainable policy on bio-fuels. The author will investigate and evaluate in what respect legal systems promote respectively restrain trade, production and use of bio-fuels in the transport sector, and how they balance the bio-fuel objective against other objectives important for the sustainable development (such as food production and biodiversity). The author will also identify efficient and less efficient legal constructions and discuss possibly successful legal strategies in promoting sustainable trade, production and use of bio-fuels. The scope of the topic is wide. It includes the EU level, the international level and the national level. It comprises regulations on trade, production and use of bio-fuels aimed as fuels for motor vehicles, as well as the analysis of the consequences which these regulations can have from the sustainable perspective. Following issues are going to be researched in the future doctoral thesis

Keywords
  • Sustainable production of biofuels,
  • Directive 2009/28/EC,
  • sustainability criteria
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2008
Citation Information
Bio-fuels is a new and rapidly expanding area of research for many sciences. It is a renewable source of energy that does not result in a net increase of carbon dioxide. Thus, it is a natural part of strategies for promoting sustainable development. In Sweden and Denmark there have been studies conducted on the issue of wind power, which is also a source of “green” energy. The proposed research falls in line with the latest environmental policy of the EU, directed towards greater use of bio-fuels in the transport area, increase in the share of renewable electricity, and with the commitments of the EU and its member states under the Kyoto Protocol, aimed at the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the project considers the setbacks that may occur, from a long term sustainability perspective, if bio-fuels are not discussed in a wider context than “fuel supply”. The subject of the project is urgent and needs to be researched.