In Germany, Reuters reported that Germany’s cabinet approved a draft biofuels law which will allow continued use of food and animal feed as biofuel ingredients.
Germany’s program to cut greenhouse gases includes blending biofuels, such as biodiesel and bioethanol, with fossil fuels to reduce emissions from road vehicles. Oil companies have greenhouse gas reduction targets, which they can partly fulfill with biodiesel often made from rapeseed oil or waste vegetable oils, and bioethanol often produced from grains or sugar, according to the report.
The use of palm oil, though, will not be permitted to count emissions reduction from 2027 because of fears about environmental damage in some world regions from its production, the report added.
The draft is also putting the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive into German law for transport, electricity and heating sectors.
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