EU biofuels policy

Gerben · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: EU biofuels policy

My attention was drawn to an EU proposal concerning biofuels.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5589632

There are 2 major items in there:
1. any biofuel that does not reduce CO2 emissions by more than 35% does not count in obtaining the biofuels objective
2. biofuels from waste are counted double

Overall I think this is a good thing (altough perhaps a gliding scale would be better). There are some isues with the double counting though. If I understand it correctly: biofuels from waste are not counted double for reaching the national objectives, but only on the level of the biofuels producer.

The policy will exclude some types of bio-ethanol and palm oil.