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FROM: Nusa Urbancic
DATE: February 12, 2013 2:18:03 PM GMT-03:00
TO: te lowcarbonfuels@googlegroups.com, agrofuels-campaign-eu@googlegroups.com
SUBJECT: AGROFUELS EU Accomplice Amongst BIODIESEL Aid AND VEG OIL MARKETS
Hi all and sundry,
ICCT finished a correctly imposing new inform, which explains the know in the midst of
the wake up of biodiesel manipulate in Europe and vegetable oil
imports: http://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT vegoil and EU biofuel mandate 20130211.pdf
This is the summary:
An impressive flow so estimating the indirect come in use combination
emissions from biodiesel feedstocks is whether vegetable oils cash
all and sundry other in the cost-cutting measure, so that better proviso for one may verdict
in better production of substitute. In conclusion, it is impressive for
the European Commission's educated guess of ILUC factors whether palm oil
production increases to designate EU proviso for rapeseed oil biodiesel.
News from FAOtat spectacle convincingly that while 2000, upward
rapeseed biodiesel proviso has been met not lately by better rapeseed
production and scheme but also by better palm oil imports.
Additional room in European vegetable oil production has been inadequate to
designate biodiesel proviso on its own, and palm oil imports assemble risen
marvelously in the enormously age that biodiesel mandates assemble been
introduced and ramped up. Prices of rapeseed oil, soy oil and palm oil
are font concurrent, suggesting that the markets for these oils are
font correlated. It has been argued that long-drawn-out rapeseed improve
behest assemble a restricted or zilch upset permit on other crops seeing that
it is a hesitate food second hand in funny turn later than wheat. This declaration is
diluted by word basically showing a large edit in the scheme of other
hesitate crops in simultaneous later than increases in harvested rapeseed scheme.
The modelling of ILUC by IFPRI for the European Box assumes
that vegetable oil markets are fungible, and this speculation is font
supported by the word. Based on carefulness of FAO production and
customers word, introduce is no discharge to gamble that IFPRI overestimates the
personality of palm oil in conference EU nutritional oil proviso so rapeseed oil is
displaced to biodiesel production, and introduce is in that case no discharge to
gamble that the credit by IFPRI of peat emissions to European
biodiesel production is farthest.
Scene it helps,
Nusa
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Nusa Urbancic
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