biofuelwatch - EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs downplays biofuel issues

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The EU's energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said that the Commission has now analysed the available data, concluding that biofuel production had "little impact" on global food prices.

Speaking at the European Bioethanol Fuel Conference in Brussels, Mr Piebalgs said biofuels would be key to Europe meeting its new target to source 10% of its transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020.

"Biofuels are just about the only large-scale option currently available to diversify fuel sources in the transport sector," he said as he pointed out that 98% of transport fuel in Europe comes from crude oil.

<<but it wasn't reported what the other large scale options might be>>

But as he laid out Europe's biofuels ambitions, Mr Piebalgs downplayed last year's controversy over biofuels, in which claims were made that the rise in global food prices was a direct result of increased biofuels production.

Addressing another concern, about the land available to grow biofuels energy crops, the commissioner said Europe had enough capacity to hit the Directive's 10% target using its own domestic agriculture - although global free trade rules would prevent a domestic-only approach to biofuel crops.

<<dubious - a general estimate is that each 1% of fuel for transport in the EU requires 1% of EU land area>>

Along with greenhouse gas savings requirements, the new Directive's sustainability criteria also sets restrictions on using land with a high biodiversity to cultivate crops to turn into biofuels, as well as land with a high "carbon stock" - like rainforest or peat bogs.

The Commission has also said it will examine the issue of indirect land-use change - for example where biofuel crops could displace food crops, forcing them to be grown in areas with a high biodiversity - before making recommendations in 2010.

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