Agricultural policies for food production in the EU and US have the potential to
conflict with land use for fuel production. Emissions trading is
likely to be another area with potential for significant interaction
with RES-H policy. It is possible that some of these areas of conflict (or potentially
even areas of mutual support) will only become apparent once
efforts are made to adopt wider policies and the problems are
assessed in greater depth, or even after policies have been
adopted and the conflict becomes apparent as a result of policy
failure or the development of unexpected barriers.