ABSTRACT
Biofuels have the potential to help meet many of the challenges that the global community faces today – reducing the threat of climate change, reducing reliance on oil and improving international security, and alleviating poverty in some of the world's poorest nations. Alternatively, a massive scale-up in the production and use of biofuels could increase the concentration of economic wealth, while speeding deforestation and biodiversity loss and possibly accelerating climate change. The path taken will depend primarily upon policies put in place by leaders at national and international levels.
