T&E supports EU proposal giving soybean oil highest ILUC risk
This proposal mirrors several existing national-level policies, with Member States such as France, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands already implementing soy biofuel phase outs.
Transport & Environment’s position maintains that the revised Delegated Act must pass the legislative scrutiny period without objection and enter into force. Soy-based biofuels are heavily linked to deforestation and land-use change, particularly in South America’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, and undermine the EU’s overarching climate ambitions of reducing transport emissions.
Despite opposition from some industry stakeholders, the arguments against the revision are technically, economically and strategically weak and inaccurate, it says.
T&E says allowing this revision to proceed is essential to:
· Reduce deforestation and deforestation-linked emissions caused by EU biofuels policy
· Uphold the credibility of EU climate policy
· Redirect markets toward truly sustainable energy sources and higher value commodities
· Decouple soy oil from biofuel demand to break the price correlation between energy prices and vegetable oils
· Ensure stronger support for genuine energy security and more sustainable decarbonization pathways
Category: Fuels
