Renewable ethanol and energy security: Europe has a homegrown solution
ePURE's Craig Winneker writes in The Parliament Magazine:
War and political instability have made ending the EU’s dependence on fossil fuel even more urgent than it already was due to the climate crisis.
So why does it come as a bit of happy surprise to hear EU policymakers suddenly talking about biofuels as a transport decarbonisation solution, especially after so many years in which their use has been capped and even threatened with phase-out?
After all, the case for using more sustainable biofuels has been clear for years. The latest European Commission statistics show that EU transport energy is still more than 92% fossil fuel, and only four Member States have reached their 2020 target (you read that right) for renewable energy in transport.
