The EU’s ‘green’ fuels law has been an unmitigated disaster. Instead of pushing sustainable alternatives, it led to widespread deforestation, habitat loss and biodiesel emissions greater than the fossil diesel it replaced. Almost all the growth in “green” fuels was met by imports, mostly through palm oil. In anyone’s eyes that is a complete failure. Not the European Commission’s it seems. After 10 years of this crazy fuels policy, we had hopes that the Commission would finally put an end to the biofuels monopoly in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). This is not what happened.
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