BIOFUELS - AT WHAT COST?

Anna Jung, Philipp Dörrenberg, Anna Rauch, Michael Thöne

For the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) / July 2010 / Study, FiFO, Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Abstract
Biofuels—both ethanol and biodiesel—benefit from high levels of financial support in almost all European Union Member States. This report aims at quantifying all support measures provided in the European Union. It is one of several studies undertaken for or by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) examining subsidies and support measures in various countries. This report in particular focuses on the years since 2007 and represents an update of the 2007 report on biofuel support measures in the EU, carried out by Kutas et al. (2007).