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Feb 26, 2021
Is SAF ready to take-off this year?
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Feb 25, 2021
GoodFuels: ‘Looking ahead to a better year’
The CEO of GoodFuels has outlined how the company will be “building back from COVID-19” in the 12 months ahead with “sustainability in its sights”. He said: “In 2020, many experts predicted that decarbonisation efforts would be delayed, suspended or entirely abandoned as the entire shipping sector faced one of its biggest challenges in history – the coronavirus... [Read More]

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Feb 23, 2021
ePURE: New goals and Green Deal commitment
The secretary general at ePURE has outlined the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for the organisation in the next 12 months. Emmanuel Desplechin said if 2020 saw the EU setting ambitious new goals in the fight against climate change, this year would be the year in which policymakers figured out how to realise those goals. He continued: “It won’t be easy.... [Read More]

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Feb 23, 2021
Global goals and ambitions
Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, the company is driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry.... [Read More]

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Feb 22, 2021
Legislative odyssey for the EU biofuels sector
Angel Alvarez Alberdi, the secretary general, EWABA, a leading biofuel industry figure discusses the opportunities and challenges for the year ahead. He said: "If there was ever a perfect regulatory storm for the biofuels sector, this is it. This year the industry at large will face different waves of entwined new laws of essential importance for the sector. "Take a... [Read More]

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Feb 22, 2021
Our flexible friend
In a recent interview Biofuels International spoke with Whitefox’s CEO Gillian Harrison about what trends they experienced during COVID-19 and how the company saw this impacting the ethanol sector going forward. “One of the impressive things we have seen is how quickly some technologies have leapt forward more than five years in their natural evolution, in particular... [Read More]

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Feb 9, 2021
New report charts a future with bioLPG
A Liquid Gas UK (LGUK) report has outlined the route to decarbonising non-domestic off-grid businesses using bioLPG. The report found that LPG and bioLPG have the potential to replace one third of all the coal and oil currently used to heat non-domestic buildings as well as for industrial processing, saving 3.5million tones of CO2 - equivalent of taking over 240,000... [Read More]

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Jan 26, 2021
Airline shows commitment to sustainable aviation fuel
“Sustainable aviation fuel is not necessarily the same as biofuel. The fact that something is made from organic raw materials, does not necessarily imply that it is sustainable. This led to some confusion,” explained Karel Bockstael, vice president of Sustainability at KLM. “For KLM, the term SAF better describes the alternative we use instead of fossil fuel. The... [Read More]

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Jan 26, 2021
‘Deploy tech options to boost climate change mitigation in transport sector’
The new year heralded the start of the 18th renewable mobility conference titled ‘Fuels of the Future 2021’ held in digital format. Speakers from the German Bioenergy Association, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, the German automotive industry, Europe’s largest motoring association the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club and... [Read More]

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Jan 19, 2021
IEA calls for urgent action to cut methane emissions from oil and gas sector
Methane emissions from the global oil and gas industry fell by an estimated 10% in 2020 as producers slashed output in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed. The organisation warned that these emissions could rebound strongly without greater action by companies, policy makers and regulators to transition to ‘greener’ fuel... [Read More]

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Jan 13, 2021
Plans for sustainable aviation fuel threatens to repeat biofuels mistakes?
Many European governments are getting serious about developing sustainable jet fuels to tackle the climate impact of flying. But a new report shows Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland risk repeating the biofuels fiasco with plans to promote crop-based fuels that cause more carbon emissions than the fossil fuels they replace. Transport & Environment (T&E), which... [Read More]

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Jan 8, 2021
Why mitigating risk factors must happen now
The COVID-19 pandemic has left a lasting impact across the energy industry, leaving in its wake a bevy of uncertainty. One sector of the energy industry that’s been hit hardest is the transportation fuels sector. With millions of people still staying at home to help stem the spread of the virus and roads being less congested, despite states gradually reopening economies,... [Read More]

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Dec 24, 2020
Share of rapeseed oil-based biodiesel increased
In view of the debate on the use of biofuels from cultivated biomass, the Union zur Förderung von Oel-und Proteinpflanzen (UFOP) has urged politicians to differentiate between the various types of feedstocks and their origins. The negative image of palm oil should not lead to a situation where the sustained biomass potential available in Germany and the European Union... [Read More]

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Dec 15, 2020
Latest UK statistics reveal growing demand for biofuels
Biofuels have been highlighted as the answer to two major issues facing the planet - climate change and our reliance on crude oil. Back in the 2008, the United Kingdom government passed the Climate Change Act that legally committed Britain to reducing ‘greenhouse gas’ (GHG) emissions by 80% over 1990 levels by the year 2050. Government policy The Renewable Transport... [Read More]

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Dec 7, 2020
US producers face a change in direction
The big question for biodiesel producers, processors, and investors in North America is whether their industry has finally turned a page, following the confirmation of Joe Biden as US President-elect. Setting aside the threat of legal action still being voiced by President Trump, the early signs from the new Biden/ Harris administration are predictably positive in terms... [Read More]


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