I want to thank the following people, who inspired me and have been instrumental to put me on the biofuel and biomass road, which enabled me to write this book:

Ben Sze from Hong Kong. In 2007, I was invited for an interview on the Asian channel of Bloomberg Television in Singapore to talk about renewable energies. I talked about this exotic plant called “Jatropha” and 5 minutes after the interview my BlackBerry rang. A voice said: “Hi, my name is Ben Sze. We have Jatropha plantations in China and I would like to meet you”! A little while afterwards we met in Hong Kong and we flew to Hainan, the beautiful island south of China where his company CPE Ltd. cultivates over 100 hectares of Jatropha nurseries in collaboration with the China-UN Development Program Green Poverty Allevia­tion Collaboration Project. This was a new world for me and from that moment on I was inspired and convinced that this plant could deliver not only energy, but also organic fertilizers on a giant scale. Ben Sze is extremely knowledgeable about Jatropha and has insight information how the government in Beijing plans its clean energy future. Ben moves very easily between Western and Chinese cultures, and is a great interpreter. He has been a partner and a loyal friend ever since.

Professor Feng Shang, PhD in Life Sciences at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu. His research team is developing a medicine, made out of Jatropha, against lung cancer. He is probably the best Jatropha scientist in China and a real authority. He closely linked to the renewable energy policy of the Beijing gov­ernment. He inspired me very much.

Hans van den Berg is a private equity specialist in Zurich who has always helped me throughout the years.

Peter Poort, a grain specialist from Glencore Grain in Rotterdam, has always inspired me with “the big picture” and always gavin me his view from one of the big grain traders in the world.

Bloomberg TV has always given me room to communicate my commodity views live on the air in their programs worldwide. I have been interviewed in their studios in New York, London, Zurich, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Bloomberg always treated me extremely well.

Vital Kharoshi is one of the Jatropha pioneers in Ethiopia. With very modest means he develops Jatropha plantations where he gives employment to the poo­rest of the poor. He practices “intercropping”, and the farmers grow sorghum,

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tomatoes, coffee, and sesame between the Jatropha, and improve the quality of their lives. He inspired me about what you can achieve with simple means.

Frank ter Voorde is a very experienced palm oil trader and always has time to discuss the latest developments. I learned a lot from him about how the physical markets function.

Dr. Walter Ammann from Davos, Switzerland, Chairman of the Global Risk Forum. (www. grforum. org). Dr. Ammann organizes a large biannial conference on global risks, and he gave me a platform to speak about desertification, marginal land, erosion, its consequences, and planting Jatropha.

Lucas Bruggeman, an expert on derivative products in Zurich and one of the best marketers in Switzerland, always stimulated me in my development into renewable energies and introduced me to several decision makers in his network.

Stephan and Christiane Oberacher, my German partners with whom I learned the ins and outs of biomass, calorific values, and gigajoules.

Peter Berger, a well known journalist on financial matters, who brought me in contact with Wiley-VCH Verlag in Germany.

Dominique Menoud from Switzerland and living most of the time in Romania, who lives and dreams megawatts and kilowatts. She is a great connoisseur of the power industry and the best planner of renewable energy power plants I have ever met.

Dr. Julia Stuthe from Wiley-VCH Verlag in Germany, who guided me from the manuscript presentation to the publication of this book.

John Teo from Kuala Lumpur, who introduced me to important biofuel and biomass players in Malaysia.

Peter Mockli, CEO Sharewood Switzerland AG, an expert in wood and teak plantations in Brazil, who has always inspired me with new ideas.

Dr. Hong Yan, Chief Scientific Officer of JOil, the premier research company in Jatropha plant biotechnology in Singapore for the production of elite lines, development of tissue culture facilities, and nurseries. Dr. Hong Yan taught me a lot about the future of Jatropha as a source for clean energy.

Chris Niemandt, biofuel farmer in South Africa, who has always informed me from his tractor about the latest developments in the energy plantations.

The Bionas Management team from Kuala Lumpur: Mohd Safi’e M. Jaffri (Chairman), Zurina Amnan (CEO), and Khairil Anuar Bin Zainuddin (General Operations Manager). Bionas is probably one of the very few profitable companies in Jatropha worldwide and they showed me how it is done with contract farming in 13 countries.

My wife Anna, who always stimulated me into realizing this project. She always gives me new ideas, inspires me, is always realistic, critical, loyal, and a big sup­port in life.

I dedicate this book to my children Laura and Vincent. As a singer, Laura Jansen is becoming a real star and she has a global audience today. She works very hard in composing beautiful music, she performsg on stage in the United States, Europe,

and China, and never gives up her goals. You can follow her on Facebook. Vincent saves lives as a helicopter pilot in the US Coast Guard in Alaska. In November 2011, he starred in a documentary on the Weather Channel about the Coast Guard heroes, doing their work under extreme circumstances. The film is comparable to Top Gun with Tom Cruise. Only Top Gun is fiction and the Coast Guard doc­umentary is for real!

Abbreviations

AAU Assigned Amount Unit

ABPPM Associagao Brasileira de Produtores de Pinhao Manso AIREG Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany ARA Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp

ASA Asian

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

BCAP Biomass Crop Assistance Program

BEES Bio-Energy Emission Solution

BTL biomass-to-liquid

BTL biomass-to-liquid

BTL biomass-to-liquids

CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China

CDM Clean Development Mechanism

CDM Clean Development Mechanism

CEPI Confederation of European Paper Industries

CERs Certified Emission Reductions

CNOOC China National Offshore Oil Corporation

CNPC China National Petroleum Corporation

COFCO China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation

CPI Consumer Price Index

DESC Defense Energy Support Center

EIA Energy Information Administration

EIA Energy Information Administration

EIA Environmental Impact Assessment

EITI Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

ETF exchange-traded fund

ETS Emission Trading Scheme

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emissions trading scheme Emissions Trading Scheme Emissions Trading Scheme European Emission Allowances Federal Aviation Administration Food and Agricultural Organization Food and Agriculture Organization Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa Framework Convention on Climate Change Ghana Investment Promotion Council Genetic Resource Center gas-to-liquid

International Air Transport Association International Air Transport Association International Air Transport Association International Air Transport Association International Energy Agency International Energy Agency International Fund for Agricultural Development International Food Policy Research Institute Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change initial public offering International Plant Protection Convention International Union for Conservation of Nature marine gas oil

non-governmental organization non-governmental organization non-governmental organization non-governmental organization non-governmental organization non-governmental organization National Renewable Energy Laboratory Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries polyethylene terephthalate Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform Reliance Life Sciences Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group

SORESIN	SOcially RESponsible INvesting
SPK	synthetic paraffinic kerosene
UNDP	UN Development Programme
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
USDA	US Department of Agriculture
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WWF	World Wide Fund for Nature
WWF	World Wide Fund for Nature