{"id":15089,"date":"2011-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110428-06n"},"modified":"2011-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:00:00","slug":"report-predicts-27-transport-fuel-from-biofuels-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/report-predicts-27-transport-fuel-from-biofuels-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Report predicts 27% transport fuel from biofuels by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted that biofuels could account for 27 per cent of transport fuels around the world by 2050.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the role that the alternative fuel could one day play in reducing the levels of CO<sub>2<\/sub> on roads, the report suggests that biofuels production could reduce dependency on fossil fuels as demand for fuel increases.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that biofuels does not have to impact on food security, a fear raised by many environmentalists. Indeed, it claimed that there is potential for using low-risk sources that require less land expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Diczfalusy, director of sustainable energy policy and technology at the IEA, said that the most important and cost-effective way to reduce transport emissions will be through vehicle efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added: &#8220;Biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth of emission reductions in the transport sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after research from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics claimed that current methods of producing biofuels are unethical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted that biofuels could account for 27 per cent of transport fuels around the world<\/b><\/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":[967,1743],"class_list":["post-15089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-international-energy-agency-iea","supplier-nuffield-council-on-bioethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089","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=15089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}