{"id":16583,"date":"2013-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130325-09n"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:00:00","slug":"ministers-block-eu-proposal-to-limit-some-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ministers-block-eu-proposal-to-limit-some-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers block EU proposal to limit some biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Several European ministers are blocking the EU\u2019s proposal to curb the use of conventional biofuels, while some dispute claims the demand for crop-based oils drives deforestation and food insecurity in other parts of the world.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A majority of EU environment ministers expressed concern over the European Commission\u2019s proposed 5% cap on the inclusion of so-called first-generation biofuels in member states\u2019 renewable energy targets, despite evidence that the fuel can have a worse impact on carbon emissions than conventionally extracted oil.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/climate-environment\/ministers-block-eu-proposal-limi-news-518698\" >www.euractiv.com\/climate-environment\/ministers-block-eu-proposal-limi-news-518698<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: grain crops, wheat, soy,  food price, monoculture, Industry collapse, cellulosic ethanol, algae, lifecycle carbon emissions, pesticides<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Several European ministers are blocking the EU&rsquo;s proposal to curb the use of conventional biofuels, while some dispute claims the demand for crop-based oils drives<\/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":[570,2317,5585,647],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-bp","supplier-european-commission","supplier-european-union","supplier-shell-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","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=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}