Sustainable Biofuel Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges after the Pandemic

Based on Covid-19 first analysis of impacts on the transport fuel sector, this presentation urged policymakers to act at two different timescales: 1) to provide support to meet short- and medium-term goals, such as assist fuel companies to overcome the collapse of demand and the economic shock, preserving direct and indirect jobs and business; and 2) provide support to meet medium- and long-term goals, such as to increase the ambition and promote higher amounts of domestic renewable and low carbon fuels, injecting economic resources on green domestic supply and conversion chains.

David Chiaramonti

David Chiaramonti is a full professor of Energy Systems at the Polytechnic of Turin. He also teaches Bioenergy Conversion Technologies at the University of Florence. He is chairman of the Renewable Energy COnsortium for R&D (RE-CORD). His main scientific interest is on the production and use in engines/turbines of biofuels, either liquid, gaseous, or solid and on bioproducts, mainly focusing on thermochemical biomass conversion and process development.