Journal
GEOFORUM
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 25-35Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.019
Keywords
Agrofuel; Biofuel; Certification; Energy geography; Regulation; Territorialisation; Uneven development; International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC)
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- Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability - Formas [259-2008-1718]
- Swedish Energy Agency (project Towards sustainable biomass within the bio-economy? Lessons learned from the renewable energy directive and its voluntary certification systems) [42011-1]
- Formas (project Land Use Today and Tomorrow) [211-2009-1682]
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The growth of biomass-based markets for transport fuel is an expanding geographical process driven by regulation in the European Union (EU). Based on a certification scheme that illustrates the regulatory mechanisms in the EU's liquid biofuel market, this article explains how larger processes of territorialisation and uneven development interact with specific processes of commodity production and flexing in this expansion. The study combines a content analysis of certification standards with a spatio-temporal analysis of data from certificates distributed 2010-2017. It shows that certification standards mirror EU regulation and, importantly, how the activities of firms extend EU rule beyond its territory. It suggests that the regulatory mechanisms seem to promote vertical integration, encourage large-scale production via horizontal integration of several different industries, and exclude small-scale production. Hence, it argues that the EU-based territorialisation re-produces historical patterns of territorial accumulation of land-based resources, wherein agro-industrial economic clusters in the global North accumulate value by exploiting biomass producers in the global South.
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