4 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies. Further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuels towards 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, only advanced biofuels with low estimated indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework. However, advanced biofuels should be subject to adequate sustainability criteria and traceability requirements as conventional biofuels.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point 1 (new)
Article 2 – point 1 – point 1 (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – point o a (new)
Article 3 – point o a (new)
"(oa) Advanced biofuel technologies are biofuels typically produced from non- food/feed feedstocks such as wastes and residues (i.e. wheat straw, municipal waste), non-food crops (i.e. grasses, miscanthus) and algae. Most technologies are at pilot scale or in the process of technological development."
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – point o a (new)
Article 3 – point o a (new)
(-i) The following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph: "The contribution made by advanced biofuels shall be at least 2% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020."