Biofuels reality check: Will the EU step up to make the Green Deal real?

ePURE Secretary-General Emmanuel Desplechin writes in the latest issue of Biofuels International magazine: "If 2020 saw the European Union setting ambitious new goals in the fight against climate change, 2021 will be the year in which policymakers figure out how to realise those goals. It won’t be easy. In fact, it will require a full agenda of revisions of existing legislation on energy, environment and taxation. For the EU ethanol industry, this roadmap is full of twists and turns that could either: 1) open the door to greater use of renewable low-carbon fuels such as EU ethanol in the transport energy mix; or 2) once again revive arguments about the sustainability of certain biofuels and reject their use in favour of other technologies that aren’t yet scalable."

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