The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) recently released a report on sustainable biofuels development and practices of its member countries. Many APEC economies are aware of both positive and negative impacts of biofuels development. Member countries which are major biofuel consumers are reported to be initiating the use of sustainable criteria (through regulatory or voluntary standards) to screen their biofuels. Even for APEC economies without biofuel sustainability criteria, sustainability issues and the potential impacts on trade, are also being considered. The report contains "current policies, programmes, and practices in APEC economies that aim to ensure that biofuels are sustainable". The report found that many APEC countries are still in the early stages of biofuel development, and activities heavily lean on research/planning. Activities related to monitoring have been observed to be few. Among the recommendations are: (1) collaboration on sustainable biofuels activities and sharing of lessons learned,; (2) promotion of all areas of sustainability simultaneously, rather than looking at a select few elements of sustainability; and (3) Incorporation of more performance-based approaches to monitoring compliance with, and impacts of, sustainable biofuel policies, programs, and practices to ensure that their intended outcomes are realized and negative unintended consequences are addressed. The full APEC Biofuels Development Sustainability report can be downloaded at the APEC website (URL above).