Law in the EU's Circular Energy System

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'Law in the EU's Circular Energy System: Biofuel, Biowaste and Biogas, edited by Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben, offers crucial insights and a foundation for navigating key laws and policies affecting biofuel, biowaste, and biogas within the context of the EU Green Deal, with opportunities and challenges within this emerging field highlighted and areas requiring further research identified.' -- Katrien Steenmans, Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law 'This excellent edited collection makes an important contribution to legal scholarship on making energy supplies sustainable. Its exploration of relationships between the waste, agriculture, food and forestry sectors and the energy sector, of their respective regulatory frameworks, and of related policy and legal contexts shines a light on key interactions for achieving circular economies in the EU and elsewhere. Coverage of legal issues raised by the integration of biofuels and biogases into energy systems and concerning the decarbonisation of heating and transport is also most welcome. The volume's examination of these hitherto underexplored areas will prove useful for scholars both in the EU and also in other jurisdictions who are looking to learn from the EU's experience with developing laws for managing waste streams and exploiting their energy-producing potential. The editors are to be commended for assembling this valuable volume.' -- Olivia Woolley, Durham University Law School, UK 'This is an impressive book detailing a range of contemporary problems and potential solutions from a cross-sectoral perspective in the paradigm shift from a linear to a circular energy system. By adopting an energy systems perspective, this edited collection provides a much-needed contribution analysing the complex legal and regulatory environment for biofuels and gases in the European Union and their interrelationship.' -- Sirja-Leena Penttinen, Energy Authority, and UEF Law School, Finland 'Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben have assembled a top-notch roster of experts to consider EU policies regarding the circular energy system. The result is not just an essential guide to this emerging field, but also a nuanced account of law's role in effecting systemic reform.' -- Bruce Huber, University of Notre Dame, US