{"id":13634,"date":"2004-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20040130-02n"},"modified":"2004-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T22:00:00","slug":"nfu-dismayed-at-government-response-on-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/nfu-dismayed-at-government-response-on-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"NFU Dismayed at Government Response on Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFU today expressed disappointment that the Government&#8217;s response to the EFRA committee report on Biofuels fails to address the main areas of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also failed to adopt EFRA\u2019s main recommendations, such as the need for a lead department on biofuels and a strategy to combat criticism of a &#8220;muddled and unfocussed&#8221; policy on biofuels.<\/p>\n<p>The Government response further undermines any chance of the UK meeting or getting close to the EU\u2019s target of 2% bio-fuel usage in road fuels by 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The NFU are also concerned that Government has not taken the threat of imported biofuels, with lower environmental credentials, seriously. There is a risk of developing UK producers, with strict environmental standards, being undercut by non EU imports.<\/p>\n<p>However, the NFU are pleased that the government recognise the positive impacts to both farm incomes and the rural economy from biofuel production and its minimal impacts on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are missing a wonderful opportunity for UK farmers to contribute to tackling carbon dioxide emissions at a time of increased concern about global warming and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The magnitude of the task in tackling climate change and the long term consequences for future generations if we fail cannot be underestimated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFU today expressed disappointment that the Government&#8217;s response to the EFRA committee report on Biofuels fails to address the main areas of criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13634"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}