January 16th, 2020 One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies has been hit with the highest possible fine in Italy over a marketing campaign that claimed that its bio-diesel containing palm oil was “green”. For the first time, the Italian Competition and Market Authority dished out the €5 Read more…
December 20th, 2017 A proposal from Europe’s environment and energy ministers to remove tighter limits on the use of biofuels put forward by the European Commission has come under fire from environmental groups who point to the potential rise in emissions and deforestation in origin countries. At the Energy Council earlier this Read more…
October 17th, 2017 New analysis reveals that over half of the crops used to produce biodiesel in the EU have been imported and are not grown by European farmers. Transport & Environment (T&E), a leading European environmental NGO, has called for more “transparency” in the “opaque” biofuel industry following analysis revealing that Read more…
October 11th, 2017 A coalition of environmental NGOs today handed over a petition signed by 172,000 to the United Nations’ aviation body urging it to scrap its plan for the large-scale use of biofuels in planes. The International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) will discuss the biofuels plan at a conference Read more…
April 4th, 2017 European politicians voted today in favour of a resolution calling for a halt to incentives for biofuels used in the transport sector that are linked to deforestation and peatland destruction. Groups across the political spectrum in the European Parliament (EP) gave their support to a motion calling Read more…
