{"id":179986,"date":"2026-08-20T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=179986"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:51:48","slug":"biofuel-push-risks-food-crisis-new-te-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biofuel-push-risks-food-crisis-new-te-study-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel push risks food crisis, new T&E study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Global biofuel consumption could rise by 30% this year and nearly 70% by 2030, according to a new study<\/a> from Transport & Environment (T&E). The surge is being driven by a scramble for biofuel feedstocks amid high oil prices.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The trend threatens to push food prices higher. Vegetable oil prices have already hit a post-2022 peak, and food commodity costs have climbed for three straight months. T&E says the pattern mirrors what followed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments including the US, Indonesia, and Thailand have moved up new biofuel blending targets following the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the resulting spike in oil prices. Meanwhile, major exporters like Brazil and Indonesia are restricting exports of key biofuel crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fertiliser supply adds another layer of strain. Biofuels currently use 5% of the world\u2019s fertilisers to produce just 4% of global transport fuel. Indonesia devotes nearly a fifth of its total fertiliser use to biofuels, while the US allocates about a tenth. Most major biofuel producers depend on Russia, China, and the Middle East for more than half their fertiliser imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land use is also a concern. Reaching a 20% biofuel share of global road fuel, a target pursued by countries like Indonesia and Brazil, would require an estimated 130 million additional hectares of land, roughly the size of South Africa. T&E warns this could drive deforestation and generate more emissions than the fossil fuels being replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u00e4di Ristkok, energy and climate director at T&E, said governments are pursuing biofuels as a response to the oil crisis but warned of serious unintended consequences for food prices and the environment. She urged governments to prioritise electrification over expanding biofuel production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global biofuel consumption could rise by 30% this year and nearly 70% by 2030, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). The surge is being driven by a scramble for biofuel feedstocks amid high oil prices. The trend threatens to push food prices higher. Vegetable oil prices have already hit a post-2022 peak, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":179999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Food commodity costs have climbed for three straight months and meanwhile major exporters like Brazil and Indonesia are restricting exports of key biofuel crops","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5714,24190,16766,23389,15108],"supplier":[6092],"class_list":["post-179986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biofuels","tag-carbonemissions","tag-fertilisers","tag-plantoils","tag-transportation","supplier-transport-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179986","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180009,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179986\/revisions\/180009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179986"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=179986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}