A coalition of 21 NGOs urged Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete to exclude soy- and palm oil-based biodiesel from the list of biofuels eligible to count toward renewable energy targets for transport.
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The Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) requires the European Commission to adopt, by 1 February 2019, a delegated act for determining the high indirect land-use change risk biofuels feedstocks “for which a significant expansion of the production area into land with high carbon stock is observed” as well as setting out the criteria for certification of low indirect land-use change-risk biofuels.
The 21 NGOs ask for the delegated act to ensure that:
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