EU continues search for biofuel 'green' criteria

15-02-10

Defining sustainability criteria for biofuels will be one of the first dossiers on the table of the newly appointed environment and energy commissioners, as persistent disagreements continue to divide the EU executive. A draft version of a European Commission communication on the EU's biofuel sustainability scheme was published by the Friends of the Earth, an environmental NGO, on its website .

The NGO said the document is highly controversial and failed to attract consensus during an inter-service consultation among the EU executive's different directorates-general (DGs).

Source: www.actmedia.eu/2010/02/11/top+story/eu+continues+search+for+biofuel+&%2339%3Bgreen&%2339%3B+criteria/25589

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