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EPPM, Singapore, 20-21 Sep 2011 The Assessment of the Policy on Promotion of Biofuel Utilization on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions (CO2) in Thailand 1 2 Suthathip Suanmali and Bundit Limmeechokchai Abstract The transport sector is the largest energy-consuming sector in Thailand, and the primary energy supply in this sector is heavily depended on imported oil. Since 2005 world crude oil price has been rising and had reached a record of a triple-digit price per barrel at 147 $/barrel. Since 2005, the Ministry of Energy has set a target to promote the use biofuel in the transportation sector to reduce the oil consumption and increase energy independency. Therefore the policy on promotion of biofuel was initiated in 2005; however, the economy- wide impacts on CO emission factors have been rarely assessed. 2 In order to measure the total Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission factors from different economic sectors, the contribution of emission has to be considered. In this paper, the focus is placed on CO emissions. To calculate the amount of CO emitted, the emission 2 2 factors of various final consumptions in the economy evaluated by the Input-Output Analysis (IOA) must be applied. The direct CO2 emissions in final energy consumptions in Thailand are evaluated by using conversion factors from Guidelines to Defras GHG conversion factors, Annexes updated June 2007. This paper is aimed to measure the CO2 emission factors in various economic sectors and to compare its factors in 2015 when the policy of promotion of biofuel utiliz