EU urged to exclude biofuel and LNG from new clean-fuel programme
A group of NGO’s led by Transport and Environment have called on the EU to “explicitly exclude” biofuels and LNG from a new clean-fuel initiative.
The European Commission’s FuelEU Maritime initiative is intended to accelerate the uptake of low-carbon fuels, but a group of NGO’s say the initiative could “inadvertently cause the uptake of alternative fuels that are worse than [conventional] fossil fuels.”
The group, led by Transport and Environment (T&E) warned that “Crop-based biofuels do not provide significant carbon reductions compared to fossil fuels, in most cases actually resulting in much higher emissions.”
T&E also warned against further public investment in LNG infrastructure and said fugitive methane emissions could undercut the greenhouse gas reduction potential of natural gas as a marine fuel.
