The Future of Biofuels: Role of Policy in Biofuel Adoption

Join RFF for a webinar featuring an expert panel that will explore biofuels policies and how they can be designed to best meet environmental and economic goals.

Date

Nov. 14, 2025

Time

1:00–2:15 p.m. ET

Participants

Aaron Smith, Jim Stock, Marc Hafstead, and Michael A. Toman

Event Series

Webinar

Details

How have US biofuel policies shaped fuel markets, emissions outcomes, and incentives for innovation? How do federal and state biofuel policies interact, and what effect do these interactions have on policy outcomes? What can be learned from recent experience about how federal and state biofuel policies can be designed to best meet environmental and economic goals?

Join Resources for the Future (RFF) on Friday, November 14 for a webinar featuring an expert panel that will tackle these questions and more. This webinar is the third in RFF’s “Future of Biofuels” series. Stay tuned for future installments and learn more on the event series webpage.

Speakers

Jim Stock, Harvard University
Aaron Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Hafstead, RFF
Mike Toman, RFF

Topics

Participants

Aaron Smith

Jim Stock

Marc Hafstead

Fellow

Marc Hafstead is an RFF fellow and director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative and the Climate Finance and Financial Risk Initiative.

Michael A. Toman

Senior Fellow

Michael A. Toman is a senior fellow at RFF. His current research interests include critical minerals for decarbonization, carbon dioxide removals, markets for emission reduction credits, and climate change policies in developing countries.

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