In the United Kingdom, the biofuel associations of seven Central and Eastern European nations condemned the EU’s RED II (Renewable Energy Directive) proposal to phase out the use of crop-based biofuels post-2020. The biofuel associations of Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria, issued a press release looking at the potential risk to jobs and livelihoods that could stem from this phasing out of crop-based biofuels, according to Platts.
“No proposal to force them [crop-based biofuels] out of the market or reduce their consumption should be entertained, as that is simply a step in the wrong direction and against the grain of policies in every other Paris Agreement signatory,” the statement read according to Platts.
According to Platt’s, the group also called for a ban on biofuel feedstock’s from countries that are not signatories to the Paris Agreement, which is currently only the case for wood biomass which is to be used for purposes other than transport.