Putting transnational hybrid governance to work: An examination of EU-REDs implementation in the Argentinean biodiesel sector

BURASCHI, MÓNICA

GEOFORUM

ELSEVIER

Año: 2022 p. 185 - 185

0016-7185

he European Renewable Energy Directive (EU-RED) constitutes a hybrid system of governance: the European Commission, a formal political authority, has set a number of sustainability criteria for the production of biofuels; however, private voluntary certification schemes are the most widely used method through which compliance is verified. In this way, EU-RED acquires the capacity to be implemented and controlled beyond European borders. This paper's goal is to assess the potentials and limitations of this hybrid initiative ofgovernance to enhance sustainability transnationally. To do so, we analyze the implementation of EU-RED in the case of biodiesel produced in Argentina and consumed in the European Union. In this way, we go beyond the literature's focus on EU-RED?s institutional framework and analyses of its potential impacts, examining instead its actual implementation on the ground. We assess its effects both in terms of governance by determining how EU-RED affects the relations