Legal and Political sustainability Sample Clauses

Legal and Political sustainability. In addition to the social factors, the legal and political framework has an important role in the sustainability of bio-refineries. They can create potential barriers for the development of biorefineries. For example, the established regulations may not fit with the technical standards. The legal and political aspects of sustainability explore efforts to address pressing sustainability concerns through policies, legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. It looks into the effectiveness of international law versus national law in protecting the environment, and about the effect of current laws on future generations. They analyze the efficacy and shortcomings of present legal instruments, private and public policies, social movements, and conceptual strategies - offering readers a prelude of steps we must take to develop laws and policies that will promote sustainability. Absence of proper legal and political framework can create potential barriers for the development of biorefineries. For example, the established regulations may not fit with the technical standards. Upscaling biorefineries from research to industrical application phase calls for consistent and stable policies over a significant period of time, backed up by efficient legal framework, opportunity to access funds, environmnent that supports continuous R&D with adequate pool of trained scientists, priority on the use of agricultural and forestry residues as feedstock in biorefineries, and realisation of some pilot project plants in different geographical areas etc.
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