Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Parliament'
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...
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...
UK Parliamentary podcast on biofuels
The British Parliament has discovered pod casting and has decided to make biofuels the subject of its first trial podcast. Cheers Isabel...
UK parliamentary committee calls for biofuel moratorium
The UK' House of Commons Environmental Audit committee, which keeps an eye on government environmental policies said today that the UK should pause in its policy to use biofuels to see if they really are environmentally sound, according to Reuters....
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...
Food, waste food and biofuels
Are biofuels going to be a drain on world food resources? Not necessarily was the message at the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group meeting held in London yesterday.One of the arguments put forward is that there is...
All Party parliamentary group on renewable transport fuels
The highlight of my professional day will be sloping off to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Renewable Transport Fuels this afternoon to listen to D-1 talk about Jatropha. There'll be a report on today's proceedings on ICISnews and I'll get...
Land for food or land for fuel, Unilever speaks out
The conflict between land for food or lan for fuel was highlighted on Monday by at a conference organised by the European Parliament's green group and reported yesterday by EUobserver. "Land availability for both food and fuel is very questionable", managing...
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