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

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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