New EU report on indirect land use change

Biofuels Digest
September 28, 2010 Jim Lane

In Italy, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published a new report on Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC), which has become a hot debate topic surrounding the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, that establishes a 10% target for renewable energy in transport fuels by 2020, and its Sustainability Criteria. The report was published the same day as the European Commission held a public consultation on ILUC in Brussels.

The report, Biofuels: a New Methodology to Estimate GHG Emissions from Global Land Use Change, is another in a series of reports published by the European Commission and others that strives to further understand the phenomena surrounding ILUC and how to calculate its impact in relating to biofuels, using modeling.

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