Failure to account for indirect land-use change is biggest threat to biofuels industry - Adonis
Thu 02 April 2009
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The Transport Minister, Lord Adonis, says that a failure to properly account for indirect land use change is perhaps the single biggest threat to the global biofuel industry. Speaking to the All-Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group, Adonis said that UK industry, government and environment groups have an opportunity to push for more robust Europe-wide indirect sustainability standards.
Lord Adonis said that during the negotiations on the Renewable Energy Directive, the UK was instrumental in pressing the European Commission to recognise the important issue of indirect land use change. He said that the EC will soon be producing a report on the subject and, if appropriate, this will establish a new methodology to help tackle the problem.
The Minister's speech came shortly before the publication of two new reports highly critical of policy to promote biofuels because of their indirect effects on land use. (See related story link.)
The LowCVP Director, Greg Archer will be speaking at the next meeting of the APPRTFG on 5 May. The meeting is entitled: ‘New Developments: Future Prospects for Renewable Transport Fuel.’ Professor Julia King, author of the King Review of Low Carbon Cars and Vice-Chancellor of Aston University, will be attending the meeting to give her perspective on the future of the industry.
For more information about the meeting, and about joining the APPRTFG, contact: info@eic-uk.co.uk
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