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| Issue | Limiting factors | Policy recommendations |
| Current | Future | Relevance/priority | Immediate/short term | Medium term (2020) | Long term (2050) |
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| Feedstock | (i) Limited information about species with potential for bioenergy
(ii) Limited information on land zoning for bioenergy
(iii) High costs for producers to comply with environmental and social regulations | (i) Risk of constraints in natural resources supply (water, chemicals, etc.) for efficient biomass production
(ii) Risks of expanding biofuels production with high impacts on land use change | Medium
High | (i) Promote the development of human resources
(ii) Promote LCA studies on crops with bioenergy potential
(iii) Evaluate gaps and mechanisms to allow producers to legalize land tenure situation | (i) Promote advanced agronomic studies on bioenergy cultures
(ii) Develop assessment on residues availability and collection
(iii) Promote agricultural yields improvements (productivity, energy and water use, fertilizers and pesticides use, land use changes, etc.) | Promote studies on innovative sources of biomass for bioenergy |
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Refining
Technol. | Lack of information about process feasibility, high technology risk | Technology risk associated with development of innovative process | High | (i) Promote the development of human resources
(ii) Support (financing) for pilot and demonstration plants | Support (financing/regulatory) aviation biofuel demonstration programs and commercial use | |
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| Logistics | Infrastructure constraints | | High | Evaluate needs of regions with potential for biofuel production | (i) Promote logistics improvements
(ii) Assess new productive schemes, reducing transport of bulky biomass | |
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| Sustainability | Need for successful enforcement of social and environment laws | Protect workers and avoid potential loss of Brazil’s major natural resources | High |
Establish legal mechanisms to ensure that incentives for aviation biofuels are only available where national laws and regulations, especially natural forest and other habitat protections, land use zoning, and worker protections, are demonstrated to be fully implemented |
| Need for monitoring of performance of aviation biofuels to international social and environment standards (assessing real benefits and impacts) | Avoid difficulties to Brazil’s aviation biofuels production | High |
(i) Consolidate the sustainability certification process
(ii) Research and incentives only to feedstocks systems which increase overall productivity of energy and food/feed/fiber on same land |
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| General | (i) Lack of coordination among governmental agencies and stakeholders in fostering aviation biofuels
(ii) Lack of information about aviation biofuels among decision makers and the public | Heterogeneity and lack of clarity in the sustainability evaluation of biofuels | High | (i) Launch an aviation biofuel program, with a clear agenda of strategic actions
(ii) Promote information campaign on potential, benefits, and implications of aviation biofuels | (i) Assess and issue regularly indicators of the aviation biofuels program;
(ii) Consolidate the sustainability certification process. | |
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