{"id":15478,"date":"2011-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110919-03n"},"modified":"2011-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:00:00","slug":"eu-in-fresh-row-over-biofuels-green-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/eu-in-fresh-row-over-biofuels-green-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"EU in fresh row over biofuels&#8217; &#8216;green&#8217; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A fresh row has erupted in Brussels over the environmental benefits of biofuels, with academics and EU officials at loggerhead over how to account for CO<sub>2<\/sub> savings in the product&#8217;s life cycle.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A group of 19 European scientists have argued that the EU&#8217;s biofuels policy was based on a &#8220;serious accounting error&#8221; and should be changed, triggering a row with the European Commission, which defends biofuels for being &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The row began with the leaking of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/about-us\/governance\/scientific-committee\/sc-opinions\/opinions-on-scientific-issues\/sc-opinion-on-greenhouse-gas\" >opinion by the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA)<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/climate-environment\/eu-fresh-row-biofuels-green-claims-news-507737\" >www.euractiv.com\/climate-environment\/eu-fresh-row-biofuels-green-claims-news-507737<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: greenhouse-gas, carbon-absorbing plants, carbon, carbon dioxide, biofuel plants<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A fresh row has erupted in Brussels over the environmental benefits of biofuels, with academics and EU officials at loggerhead over how to account for<\/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":[2317,2865],"class_list":["post-15478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-commission","supplier-european-environment-agency-eea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478","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=15478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}