The “Sustainable Biofuels Consensus” is the document issued by a group of experts in environment, energy, agriculture and development from 12 different countries, after they convened at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, in the United States. The experts convened to discuss the potentials of biofuels trade for rural development. The issued document is an “international initiative which calls upon governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders to take concerted, collaborative and coordinated action to ensure the sustainable trade, use and production of biofuels”. In the document, the experts called for the following recommendations: (1) Integrate and better coordinate policy frameworks; (2) Assess benefits and impacts of biofuels trade, use and production, and monitor them; (3) Address negative indirect effects of biofuels trade, use and production; (4) Reward positive impacts and investments, including through carbon management, (5) Use informed dialogues to build consensus for new projects; (6) Increase investment in research, development and demonstration; (7) Build capacity to enable producers to manage carbon and water; and (8) Make sure that trade policies and climate change policies work together. The full text of the “Sustainable Biofuels Consensus” can be accessed at the Bioenergy Webshore website (URL above)..