2023年8月18日 · Biofuels are liquid or gaseous transport fuels, such as biodiesel and bioethanol, made from biomass. They serve as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels in the EU's transport sector, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the EU's security of supply. Biofuels and biogas in co-processed fuels

2024年1月15日 · The database was foreseen under Article 31a of the 2018 Renewable Energy Directive to improve traceability of biofuels, avoid double counting, and address concerns about fraud. The European Commission has worked closely with the relevant stakeholders and market players to prepare the database, also with a view to opening the application for ...

Biomass and biofuels help to lower the EU's external energy dependence and contribute to reducing greenhouse emissions.

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aviation biofuels in the aviation market. 1.2 M tons of biofuels are blended with kerosene. Start construction of the second series of 2G plants including algal biofuels and pyrolytic oils from residues. Operational by 2020. Long-term (up to 2020) Supply of an additional 0.8 M tons of aviation biofuels based on synthetic

2023年6月5日 · The methods described in this legal act can also be used by EU countries to verify the share of biofuels when blended with fossil fuels, in line with the requirements of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996 on rules to verify sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria .

Biofuels are promoted as an option to reduce climate emissions from the transport sector. As most biofuels are currently produced from land based crops, there is a concern that the increased consumption of biofuels requires agricultural expansion at a global scale, leading to additional carbon emissions.

2023年10月27日 · Bioethanol was the second most consumed fuel type (18%), and biomethane and other liquid biofuels aggregate to less than 1%. As regards heating and cooling, biomass fuels and bioliquids were used for the production of 17.3 mtoe of gross heat in the EU in 2021, notably using solid biomass (76.0%), followed by renewable municipal waste (18.1% ...

2024年10月14日 · The Commission has published a draft delegated regulation to update the rules for the Union Database on Biofuels (UDB) to improve the traceability of data along the entire supply chain and opened a 4-week call for feedback on the draft text from interested parties.

2022年9月26日 · Voluntary schemes and national certification schemes of EU countries help to ensure that biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels as well as renewable hydrogen and its derivatives (renewable fuels of non-biological origin or RFNBOs), and recycled carbon fuels (RCF) are sustainably produced by verifying that they comply with the EU sustainability criteria, as …