Tag: Biofuels
Scientists Call on Global Leaders to Limit Crop Biofuels Ahead of COP30
Ahead of the COP30 climate change negotiations, which open next week in Belém, Brazil, nearly 100 members of the global scientific community, including representatives from the Union of Concerned Scientists, have signed on to a letter calling on global leaders to limit a dangerous expansion of biofuels. The letter comes as … [continued]
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IRENA Chief Highlights Renewable Surge and Dismisses Doubts on Energy Transition
The first day of the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) saw Francesco La Camera, the Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), delivering a resolute address, emphasizing the unprecedented dominance of renewables in new energy projects and firmly asserting that the global energy transition is accelerating, not faltering. … [continued]
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Trump’s attack on UN shipping deal is a harbinger of what’s to come. Here’s how countries can still get climate action done.
By William Todts The UN’s International Maritime Organization is not normally a place that grabs the headlines. But the scenes that unfolded in London earlier this month were unprecedented. The US government, led by the President and his secretary of state, invested enormous political capital to threaten, cajole and intimidate … [continued]
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Brazil’s Sustainable Fuels Pledge Is Dangerously Ambitious and Risks Repeating Mistakes of the Past
Huge biofuels expansion without safeguards would drive deforestation. Next month the world’s spotlight will turn to Belém, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, as Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit. The setting is symbolic. The Amazon, “the lungs of the planet,” is a wealth of biodiversity and … [continued]
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Urgent Need for EU Action on E-Fuels, Taxation, & Air Traffic Growth
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its first annual technical report on the implementation of the ReFuelEU regulation, which monitors how airlines and fuel suppliers are complying with the new sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) mandate. The findings paint a sobering picture of the state of the energy … [continued]
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