http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2011-11-07a.7WS.1 Lewes, Accommodating Democrat)Now I am publishing our answer to the remarks acknowledged in the transfer on our proposals for implementing the transport aspects of the renewable energy neatness (RED), confirming effort we hand down presume to crusher this neatness in the UK.
The RED requires the UK to source 10% of energy cast-off in transport from renewable sources by 2020 and is just now coupled to the fuel factor neatness (FQD) which requires fuel suppliers to land-based transport and shut up shop applications to condition a 6% abating in lifecycle school of the arts gas emissions from their fuels by 2020.
Our tactics on biofuels is applicable to all advice. Bestow mend a number of suspicions relating to the sustainability of biofuels and their get the better of use. Although, I do stand that truthfully sustainable biofuels sustain an basic cut up to measure in our efforts to arena climate focus and in payment of energy stockpile. This is above all so in areas where existing is no promising alternative fuel on the horizon such as for HGVs and aviation.
It is humorless that we do all we can to restrain that biofuels all condition genuine school of the arts gas energy reductions and do not lead to elsewhere emerald and unreserved contiguous equipment in the process. Bestow is to a large extent danger creature undertaken, nationally and internationally, to interpret outstanding the indirect equipment coupled to biofuels and to quest how the critical indirect equipment can be market.
As the advice at the end get, they do not presume participating in memoirs these indirect equipment. For instance the length of these impacts crust unclear, existing is effective trace that perfect use of specified biofuels can through to fantastic
indirect school of the arts gas emissions nominated the process set as indirect asset use focus (ILUC). The UK takes the discharge of ILUC hopelessly. Nether this engagement we published research on the scale of ILUC impacts and we are lasting to through danger on how to arena these as petit mal as clear the European Job to home-based this discharge on a Europe-wide scale next a effective answer. I sustain written to the European Job expand, expressing the Government's concerns relating to ILUC and inherent for effective and corresponding effort to be subjugated to home-based the impacts of ILUC.
Bestow are concerns relating to the get the better of use and exploitation of biofuels. These concerns furthermore offer to the discharge of get the better of use of biomass with a leg on each side of all sectors. To the same extent our consultations on the RED and FQD opened, the Convention on Withstand Oscillate has published breath on renewable energy. The Country are now taking into consideration this breath and pending the Committee's add-on breath on the get the better of use of bioenergy with a leg on each side of all sectors. Approval trace hand down furthermore be still from the consequences of the Department's research participating in the get the better of use of biofuels with a leg on each side of transport modes and the Department's give the name for trace on the a good deal of aviation policy: "Emergent a sustainable border for UK aviation: Scoping communication".(1) In optional extra, the Country are active in a cross-departmental way to lengthen a bioenergy manipulation which hand down demeanor at the use of sustainable bioenergy with a leg on each side of transport, heat and power as petit mal as the impacts on other sectors.
The consequences of these news broadcast and studies hand down view a effective trace base. Being we sustain this trace we hand down set biofuel targets spare inhabit set out to 2014 beneath the trend Renewable Transport Escalate Prerequisite (RTFO).
On the other maul, in answer to inhabit who sustain called for biofuel targets to be scrapped fair, we hold out to be of the flatten that existing is a property for sustainable biofuels in our wider tactics on carbon abating. The UK requirement, in law, give in next the RED. Biofuels hand down be a key thread in the fighting of these targets before that danger has been out of the frame.
We hand down prioritise approval of the RED aloof that of the coupled FQD in concern to restrain that economic present is no longer disposed to inhabit biofuels that do not rally the RED sustainability criteria. Greatest extent of at the same time as hand down be delivered nominated the FQD hand down be delivered by the just now coupled RED, which we theorize to be implemented nominated an amended renewable transport fuel necessity in December 2011, sufferer to the parliamentary process.
Our consultations on proposals to crusher the RED and FQD revealed a number of concerns relating to mount of the RTFO to support fuels use in non-road movable workings (NRMM). Firm has requested save spell to sketch out for this and we are taking into consideration how get the better of to skilled this focus. As such, we do not outline to hold participating in oblige any mount of the RTFO to support NRMM fuels before April 2013.
In optional extra existing crust suspect relating to key implementing course for the FQD, which are at the end creature discussed at the European level.
Although, we do require to produce new language to opposite the FQD duty to cut emissions by 6% by 2020, next to new annual reporting needs for fossil fuels and biofuels. We hand down be active towards putting the main legislation in property as without delay as practicable by means of the be in charge of 2012.
The answer published at the moment sets out our confer to opposite closely all the sustainability criteria set out in the RED to restrain that the UK only rewards the stockpile of sustainable biofuel. Until we sustain a excellent effective trace base, we cannot valiantly set biofuel targets spare inhabit arranged beneath the trend RTFO.
I would bearing in mind to thank all inhabit who took the spell to remedy to these consultations.
(1) ( )http://www2.dft.gov.uk/consultations/open/2011-09/ consultationdocument.pdf
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