In Belgium, the seven institutions of the Refuel Project presented their EU biofuels roadmap at the World Biofuel Markets conference in Brussels. The report said that the EU can meet its 10 percent biofuels target by 2020 with first-generation feedstocks and fuels based on existing technology, without major agricultural land use changes. The report said that next-gen biofuels would increase greenhouse gas emissions reductions, but would require several policy changes to have impact.
The Roadmap was developed Chalmers University of Technology, COWI Consultants in Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Economics, EC BREC Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej, Joanneum Research, Copernicus Institute (Utrecht University), Internation Institute of Aplpied System Analysis, and ECN Energy Research Institute of the Netherlands.
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