BioFuels News and Articles

Biofuel is fuel produced from renewable resources, especially plant biomass, vegetable oils, or treated municipal and industrial wastes. Biotechnology is one of the most effective and innovative tools available to attain European targets for biofuel use, while reducing adverse environmental impacts of transport, and limiting the impact of the increased cultivated land area.

EuropaBio

• European Biotech industry welcomes the European Parliament's decision to support a 10% renewable energy for transport target by 2020 - September 2008
• European biotech industry identifies the real culprits causing food price rises  -  July 2008
• EuropaBio publishes Press Statement: Biotech Industry supports 10% fuel targets set out by the European Commission as being sustainable -  April 2008
• EuropaBio responds to EEA proposal to drop 10% target for biofuels in the Renewable Energy Directive - April 2008
• EuropaBio publishes comments on the development of environmental sustainability criteria for biofuels - January 2008
• Letter from EuropaBio to Angel Gurria (OECD) on the working paper "Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?" - October 2007
• EuropaBio Question & Answer (Q&A) in response to the working paper “Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disease”

Other News and Articles

• Biofuels: more valuable as fuel than as a scapegoat
  European Commission Press release - May 2008
• Biofuels: seeing past the sound and fury
  Blog by European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development  - May 2008
• "Biotechnology: essential when producing biofuel"
  Biofuels International - November 2007
• "EU maintains biofuel targets despite criticisms"
  European Energy Review - November 2007
• "Second-generation biofuels: the wave of the future"
   European Energy Review - November 2007
• “Biofuels can match oil production" (Based on working paper, “Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disease”); Financial Times - 7 November 2007

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