ABSTRACT: The development of renewable biofuels from platform molecules facilitates a direct catalytic approach for manufacturing liquid biofuels at modest conditions. Hydrogen has many useful applications in the petrochemical industry currently as well as the growing field of biochemical production. It can be efficiently obtained from formic acid photodecomposition which is a much simpler, safer and cost effective method of hydrogen production. It can be applied to the levulinic acid hydrogenation process to produce γ-Valerolactone (GVL) as seen in the reaction scheme below: