{"id":375,"date":"2013-09-04T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:45:09","slug":"biofuels-decision-time-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels &#8211; decision time for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theengineer.co.uk\/Pictures\/web\/e\/o\/x\/biofuel_farm.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"249\" \/>Once seen as a useful tool in the struggle against climate change, biofuels made from crops have turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. Not only do they risk increasing rather than reducing\u00a0greenhouse gas emissions\u00a0they also\u00a0drive up food prices\u00a0and contribute to deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>But decision makers now have a unique opportunity to get things right.<\/p>\n<p>Even the European Union (EU)\u00a0&#8211; which\u00a0introduced a target that would have led to 10% of petrol and diesel fuels being replaced by biofuels by 2020 &#8211; has slowly started to realise the serious problems caused by biofuels. Since a proposal to reform EU biofuel policy was published in September last year, Parliament and Council have separately discussed their reaction to it.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament&#8217;s Environment Committee has supported some positive measures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cap on the use of crops for biofuels at 5.5% of fuel use<\/li>\n<li>The introduction of so called indirect land use change (ILUC) factors that account for the climate impacts of deforestation triggered by the expansion of biofuels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Committees in the Parliament (e.g. the one for Industry, Research and Energy) have taken less helpful positions, opposing ILUC factors and watering down the cap on food for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Now things are coming to a crunch as\u00a0 the full plenary of the Parliament is making a decision on the proposals that are on the table on September 11.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Please read our new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/resource\/briefings\/biofuels_change_course.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">briefing on biofuels<\/a>\u00a0to find out the key demands MEPs must support in the upcoming vote.<\/p>\n<p>Please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/campaigns\/biodiversity\/press_for_change\/end_food_fuel_40550.html\">take action<\/a>\u00a0by writing to your MEP\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>You can also join the new StopBadBiofuels coalition at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopbadbiofuels.org\/\">http:\/\/www.stopbadbiofuels.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Autor:\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Richter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/news\/biofuels_europe_41043.html\">http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/news\/biofuels_europe_41043.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once seen as a useful tool in the struggle against climate change, biofuels made from crops have turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. Not only do they risk increasing rather than reducing\u00a0greenhouse gas emissions\u00a0they also\u00a0drive up food prices\u00a0and contribute to deforestation. But decision makers now have a unique opportunity to get things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energetika","tag-biofuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}