Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'EU'
EU puts tarrif on US Biodiesel
The European Union has started applying tariffs to biofuel exported from the US to the EU. The EU says that American biodiesel is being sold at less than the true cost of production in the US because of local, state...
Will water be the limiting factor in biofuel production?
I have blogged in the past about the relationship between water and biofuels. There can't be conventional grain-based biofuels without water. But there was an interesting post on EurActive a little earlier today in response to the annual Davos meeting....
The EU climate and energy package welcomed by EuropaBio
I've just received a press release from EuropaBio, which explains why the organisation likes the recently approved EU Climate and Energy Package.... Here it is.European Parliament's approval of the Climate and Energy Package provides the European biotech industry with a...
European Bioethanol industry welcomes EU 20% by 2020 plan
The European Bioethanol industry body has welcomed the EU's plan to ensure that 20% of its energy comes from renewable sources by 2020, according to ICIS news.(Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS)The idea that governments will be able to...
Biofuels are sticking point for EU renewable policy
According to ReutersThompson Biofuels have deadlocked the EU'a renewables policy. ...
Can the EU square ethics with trade, should it even try in biofuels?
Can the EU square its desire to import only biofuels that conform to high ethical standards with the needs of free trade? That might sound like the kind of question we'd be covering in an ethics course (which thankfully we're...
EU Parliament's decison to change its biofuel approach worries Malaysians
The European Parliament's decision to change its approach to biofuels has worried the Malaysian government, accroding to a report in Bernama.com.The Euroepan parliament decided on 11 September that there would be a binding 5% quota on the use of biofuels...
EU consults on sustainability on using biomass
If you've not contributed to the EU consultation on new and renewable energy then you should. Hat tip to GAVE....
Biofuels Cities newsletter
You should check out the latest edition of the EU's Biofuels Cities newsletter ....
EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping - AFP
Story on ICIS news this morning , that the EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping.(Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Good to see the EU getting up and protecting its biofuel producers from what it sees as unfair...
US exports to EU threaten global biodiesel - EBB
The European Biodiesel board is worried enough about the US exports of biodiesl to the Europe to start drafting a complaint to the World Trade Organisation about it, and warned the US National Biodisel Board meeting in Orlando, Florida that...
The next two weeks are going to be important for biofuels in Europe
The next two weeks are going to be important for biofuels in Europe. Setting the tone for policy we have the UK Royal Society calling for Biofuels to meet a 50% reduction in greenhouse gasses than the fossil fuels they...
Europe is facing a biofuel feedstock crunch
Here's an American perspective on the European Biofuel feedstock situation. He says Europe is facing a biofuel feedstock crunch, that the same could happen in the US too....
Biofuels Cities update
If you don't know about the EU's Biofuel Cities group, you probably should. The fifth and latest email newsletter is out now....
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain European Biofuel producers are considering legal action through the European Commission to halt they see as US biofuel producers dumping biofuel within the EU. Exports from the US gain...
Brazil wants biofuels tariff reduction fast tracked at WTO
Brazil wants the WTO to fast track tariff reductions for biofuels on the basis that they are an environmental good, according to Bridges Weekly Trade Digest. Brazil was making representations at Doha Round negotiations on liberalising trade in environmental goods,...
US renewable loan guarantees announced
International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council is urging the US and EU to open their markets for biofuels from the developing world, where they can be produced far more efficiently, cost effectively and offer major opportunities for economic development...
European Union's biofuels subsidies measured
The Size and scope of the European Union's biofuels subsidies is outlined in a new report from the Global Subsidies Initiative, which recently looked at biofuel subsidies in OECD members. Taking some of the key findnings Transfers per tonne of...
Biofuels are bad for the planet (again)
Trans National Insitute (which calls itself a world wide fellowship of committed scholar-activists (they'd hardly be uncommited)) has published Paving the way for agrofuels: an unsustainable path It starts by stating: In the face of the climate change threat and...
OECD biofuels subsidies
The OECD nations subidise biofuels to the tune of an estimated estimate $11 billion a year or more and rising fast, according to the Global Subsidies Initiative in its report Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and...
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