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Certification schemes for Biofuels are currently emerging, like the global RSB-certification, mineral oil tax exemption for biofuels of the Swiss Government or other national activities (UK, NL, D, California …). These certification schemes include a range of life cycle-based indicators (GHG, Air quality, eutrophication, etc.), that are complex to evaluate.

This tool is designed for a rapid assessment of environmental impacts of individual biofuels by combining key factors of the individual production chain with life cycle data from ecoinvent-reference data sets. It enables producers from south countries to check the compatibility of their biofuels production with sustainability certification criteria. It allows facilitating the access to the Swiss market for biofuels’ producers in emerging countries, and therefore contribute to a more sustainable implementation of biofuels production.