Dec 9, 2024
Transition review into Indonesia biodiesel imports into UK
Policy News
Nov 29, 2024
Wizz Air has been awarded EMEA’s Environmental Sustainability Airline Group for 2024 at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit & Sustainability Awards in Hong Kong.
This marks the third consecutive year that the airline has received a sustainability award at the annual CAPA Airline Leader Summit.
The CAPA Environmental Sustainability Awards for Excellence recognise airlines,... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 25, 2024
The UK SAF mandate has been signed into law and will become effective from New Year’s Day.
The SAF mandate will start at 2% of total UK jet fuel demand, increase on a linear basis to 10% in 2030 and then to 22% in 2040.
From 2040, the obligation will remain at 22% until there is greater certainty regarding SAF supply.
The mandate will encourage the innovation of... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 22, 2024
With a joint appeal to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a broad alliance of biofuel industry associations is supporting a recently published fire letter from 16 EU member states.
The letter urged the EU Commission to stop the implementation process.
Like the member states, the associations criticise the lack of a decisive legal basis for implementation.... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 20, 2024
Soybeans are the most important oilseed crop imported by the European Union, ahead of rapeseed.
In the first four months of the current crop year, the EU imported the highest volume of soybeans since 2021/22.
According to information published by the EU Commission, the EU purchased just over 4 million tonnes of soybeans between July and early November 2024.
This... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 15, 2024
Poor weather conditions this year have considerably reduced sunflower yields across the EU.
Notwithstanding an expansion in production area, total output remains well below previous years.
According to EU Commission estimates, EU sunflower seed production in 2024 amounted to just over 8.1 million tonnes.
This represents a 17% drop from 2023 and is also the smallest... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 23, 2024
CLIMBING. FAST. campaign partners have welcomed the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) as a formal member of the growing sustainability advocacy campaign focused on advancing the business aviation industry’s commitment to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The partnership was announced at the 2024 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE)... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 21, 2024
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has obtained a favourable judgement from the Court of Justice, which rejected the appeal formed by Indonesian exporters PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri and PT Permata Hijau Palm Oleo against the judgment of the General Court delivered in 2022.
The ruling from the Court of Justice upheld in its entirety the ruling of the General Court and... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 16, 2024
Indonesia is taking the initiative to unite ASEAN member countries against what it perceives as broader discriminatory global sustainability policies, but particularly the European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), even with the regulation’s delay.
This development comes as ASEAN grapples with the potential economic impacts of such regulations on its key export... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 16, 2024
Progress in the biofuels industry towards a more efficient and sustainable future demands the deployment of innovative strategies and collaboration with key partners that can guide this process in a coherent and effective way.
Tomsa Destil is a Spanish company with over 170 years of experience providing engineering solutions worldwide for the alcohol and biofuels industry.... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 7, 2024
The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Crops (UFOP) has welcomed the postponement of the implementation of the European Deforestation Directive (EUDR) announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The agricultural sector needs this time corridor in order to be able to adapt to the additional obligations to provide evidence, UFOP added.
Against this... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 19, 2024
The UK House of Commons has given the green light to the draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024.
This was unopposed in the House with support gathered from both sides of the parliamentary divide.
The order was first put before the House earlier in July and it now needs to be approved by the House of Lords before becoming a law.... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 2, 2024
A business aviation coalition has called on the Biden administration to follow the approach the government uses for existing biofuel programmes when it develops rules to quantify and verify greenhouse gas emissions from various feedstocks for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Those rules will determine the level of Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives available... [Read More]
Policy News
Aug 20, 2024
Chinese biodiesel producers are searching for new markets in Asia as supply to the European Union dries up ahead of anti-dumping tariffs, Reuters reported.
The EU will impose provisional anti-dumping duties of between 12.8% and 36.4% on Chinese biodiesel from hitting over 40 companies including leading producers.
Some larger producers are eyeing the marine fuel market... [Read More]
Policy News
Jul 17, 2024
A Bill will be introduced to support sustainable aviation fuel production through the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (Revenue Support Mechanism) Bill.
This was revealed by King Charles in the House of Commons in the UK during his first King’s Speech under a new Labour Government during the State Opening of Parliament on July 17.
This will be done through introducing a... [Read More]
Policy News
Jul 12, 2024
This year’s Energy Outlook by bp is focused on two main scenarios – the current trajectory and net-zero.
These scenarios, as highlighted in the 107-page report, are not predictions of what is likely to happen or what bp would like to happen, but rather they explore the possible implications of different judgements and assumptions concerning the nature of the energy... [Read More]
Policy News
Jun 7, 2024
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has sent a letter to the representatives of the European Commission regarding the dumping of Chinese biodiesel on the European market.
The letter was sent to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner Kadri Simson, Commissioner Thierry Breton, Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski... [Read More]