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Major airlines, including Easyjet, KLM and Air France, have joined with environmental NGOs to call for stricter policies on biofuels and reduce the aviation sector’s environmental impact.
In a statement released on Wednesday (13 January), the airlines recommended that EU policymakers support sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) by prioritising e-fuels and those made from agriculture waste and forest residues.
The statement also includes a call to exclude biofuels produced on dedicated cropland to avoid any competition between biofuels and food crops.
“Because of COVID-19, sustainability is even more a key agenda item for airlines going forward,” said KLM CEO Pieter Elbers. “Scaling up the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is a cornerstone in achieving our carbon reduction targets,” he said.
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(Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants e.V. (UFOP) ) … German government agreed last Friday on key points for the national implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). In addition to the gradual increase of the GHG quota to 22 percent in 2030, it includes the setting of the cap for biofuels from cultivated biomass at 4.4 percent from 2026.
The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants e.V. (UFOP) welcomes the agreement reached by the federal ministries as a significant step forward compared to the first drafts of the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) and as an important step for climate protection in the transport sector. The UFOP particularly emphasizes that the BMU, as the lead ministry, finally recognizes the role of biofuels from cultivated biomass as the most important climate protection component in the transport sector today and assigns them a stable role at today’s level until 2030. This would also ensure the continued provision of dom