Posted on 02/02/08
Europe likes biofuels, but some are 'worse than useless'
BIOFUEL BOOSTERISM THE NEWS The European Union unveiled its new plan for tackling climate change last week, with an overall goal of at least a 20-per-cent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. Highlights include: generating at least 20 per cent of the continent's energy from renewables, a carbon-trading scheme (which puts a price on carbon emissions, encouraging industry to lower them) and - most controversial - a requirement that 10 per cent of transport fuels come from biofuels.
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