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Title: EU Legislation


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EU Legislation
  • Renewable Energy Directive and Fuel Quality
    Directive
  • 10 renewable energy in transport by 2020
  • Greenhouse gas saving only 35 by 2017, going up
    to 50 or 60
  • Some weak sustainability criteria
  • Only reporting on social impacts
  • Verification of compliance unclear
  • Review in 2014

2
Sustainability criteria
  • No-go areas
  • Land with high biodiversity (but Commission
    decides)
  • Estimated 1.2 global forests protected
  • Land with high carbon stock
  • Estimated 95 peatlands and 50 forests NOT
    protected

3
Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC)
Plantation
Forest
4
Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC)
Plantation
Agrofuel
Forest
5
Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC)
Plantation
Agrofuel
Indirect Deforestation
Forest
6
Greenhouse gas savings
  • ILUC key to restricting at least first generation
    agrofuels
  • FOE research in UK - equivalent to 0.5 million
    extra cars
  • Commission to come up with proposals by March 2010
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