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Planting the forest at the root of the EU-Indonesia trade relationship
The EU opened trade talks for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Indonesia in 2016. Europe and Indonesia both have clear objectives for the trade deal, from increased sales in...
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Momentum growing behind phase-out of palm oil diesel in Europe
More than 320,000 citizens have added their voices to the campaign to stop subsidising the use of palm-oil biodiesel in Europe’s cars and trucks. The #NotInMyTank petition calls on the European...
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EU classifies palm oil diesel as unsustainable but fails to cut its...
In a landmark decision, the European Commission last night acknowledged in a delegated act that oil palm cultivation causes significant deforestation, and thus biodiesel produced from palm oil cannot...
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Phasing-out palm oil biodiesel is compatible with WTO due to its climate and...
In the context of the EU recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (REDII), the European co-legislators asked the Commission to develop a methodology to identify high ILUC risk biofuels with a...
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EU labels palm oil in diesel as unsustainable
The European Commission today decided that palm oil is not a green fuel and should not be promoted because it causes deforestation. The use of palm oil in diesel, which is driven by the EU’s renewable...
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Palm oil is not a green fuel, says EU
The use of palm oil in diesel will be gradually reduced from 2023 and should reach zero in 2030, the European Commission has decided. Though some exemptions will remain, palm oil will no longer be...
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Almost two-thirds of palm oil consumed in the EU is burned as energy - new data
Europeans are increasingly eating less and less palm oil and instead are inadvertently burning more and more in cars and trucks. Last year 65% of all the palm oil imported into the EU was used for...
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The trend worsens: More palm oil for energy, less for food
In 2018, almost two-thirds (65%) of the palm oil imported into the EU was burned as energy. Of that, 53% was used to make biodiesel for cars and trucks and 12% to generate electricity and heating....
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Mercosur deal opens door to South American biofuels while palm oil biodiesel...
A new EU trade deal with the South American Mercosur trade bloc will open the European market to more imports of ethanol and crops that are used to make high-emitting biofuels. It means that crops and...
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Land ‘abuse’ must be stopped to avoid catastrophic climate change, scientists...
Leading scientists have warned that land abuse by humans - including crop biofuels production - must be stopped to avoid catastrophic climate heating. In a stark condemnation, the UN's...
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