{"id":58817,"date":"2018-12-05T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=58817"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:01:18","slug":"new-guidelines-on-cascading-use-fail-to-meet-expectations-of-eus-new-bioeconomy-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-guidelines-on-cascading-use-fail-to-meet-expectations-of-eus-new-bioeconomy-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"New guidelines on cascading use fail to meet expectations of EU\u2019s new Bioeconomy Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today\u2019s publication of the non-binding guidelines on the cascading use of wood fails to live up to the Commission\u2019s own ambitions signalled in its recent Bioeconomy Strategy. CEPI has been a long-time proponent of this principle which allows for every wood fibre to be used on average 2.5 times, instead of solely burning wood for bioenergy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cascading use principle works automatically in a well-functioning market but unsustainable subsidies distort wood markets\u201d says Ulrich Leberle, Raw Materials Director of CEPI, the European forest fibre and paper industry. \u201cThe new guidelines should be aligned with the new EU strategy to make the bioeconomy more circular. They should also take into account any assessment of Member States that encourages the application of these principles in their bioenergy support schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines ignore the firm call set out by the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive, approved yesterday, to avoid raw material market distortions and neglect to provide clear instructions on this in the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance is clearly a missed opportunity for contributing to a circular bioeconomy that is built on the efficient use of biomass and innovative solutions rather than on direct burning of wood for bioenergy. The focus should now turn to ensuring that Member States respect the cascading use principle in their national climate and energy plans and that future revision of these guidelines take account of this principle.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>Ulrich Leberle<br \/>\nCEPI\u2019s Raw Materials Director, at<br \/>\nPhone: (+32) 2 627 49 23<br \/>\nE-Mail: <a href=\"mailto:u.leberle@cepi.org\" target=\"_blank\">u.leberle@cepi.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s publication of the non-binding guidelines on the cascading use of wood fails to live up to the Commission\u2019s own ambitions signalled in its recent Bioeconomy Strategy. CEPI has been a long-time proponent of this principle which allows for every wood fibre to be used on average 2.5 times, instead of solely burning wood for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[5838,10416,5627,15170],"supplier":[1630,2317],"class_list":["post-58817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-circulareconomy","tag-energy","tag-woodfibres","supplier-confederation-of-european-paper-industries-cepi","supplier-european-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817","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=58817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58817"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=58817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}