{"id":15909,"date":"2012-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120819-03n"},"modified":"2012-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T22:00:00","slug":"biofuel-fails-eu-sustainability-test-german-researchers-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biofuel-fails-eu-sustainability-test-german-researchers-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel fails EU sustainability test, German researchers claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The growing row over biofuels is ready to flare up again with German researchers claiming to have found evidence that European-produced biodiesel does not meet the sustainability targets claimed by Brussels.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two experts at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena say eight out of their 10 tests on locally produced rapeseed biodiesel failed to show the 35% greenhouse gas savings promised. In most cases it was under 30%. The use of biofuels would be further undermined when the EU emissions target increases, as planned, to 50% in five years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/aug\/19\/biofuel-fails-eu-sustainabilty-test?newsfeed=true\" >http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/aug\/19\/biofuel-fails-eu-sustainabilty-test?newsfeed=true<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags:  energy crops, rapeseed biodiesel, renewable energy, ethanol, EU, climate goals<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The growing row over biofuels is ready to flare up again with German researchers claiming to have found evidence that European-produced biodiesel does not meet<\/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":[5585,233,1457,3035,3763,8400],"class_list":["post-15909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-union","supplier-food-and-agriculture-organization-of-the-united-nations-fao","supplier-universitaet-jena","supplier-technische-universitaet-berlin","supplier-university-of-coimbra","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909","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=15909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}