The EU Commission launched in late July an EU-wide sustainability benchmark for biofuels, but kicked a major aspect of the guarantee into the long grass. Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger had been due to unveil an EU scheme for registering biofuel producers that respect environmental and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission guidelines, enabling companies to sell an alternative to ordinary petrol across the entire bloc. But the announcement failed to include action factoring indirect land use change (ILUC) into the new guidelines; ILUC concerns the knock-on effects when cropland in one part of the world is converted into biofuels, sparking the conversion… Login to continue

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