He said the debate on biofuels, conducted in the Czech Republic in connection with the rising prices of food, lack an outlook in the future where biofuels will no longer be made of wheat and oilseed rape but from biological waste, among others. The biofuels of the new generation will not compete with the production Czech mining region wants more money for environment ...
Czech Greens do not discuss MP's absence at election session ... of food and they would mean lower carbon dioxide emissions than the current biofuels, Bursik said. He recalled that the EU plans to introduce criteria of sustainability.
They would have to be met for the used biofuels to be recognised as part of the commitment that biofuels should make up at least 10 percent of all fuels used in transport in 2020. One of the criteria will probably be the biofuels' certificate of origin, guaranteeing that they were not made at the cost of a rainforest, for example. To fulfil its purpose, biofuel must be made of domestic materials, Bursik said. Another criterion will require that the use of the given biofuel lower the greenhouse gas emission by at least 35 percent, compared to its "oil alternative." Bursik said that Pavel Svarc, head of the state petrochemical company Cepro, last week announced the plan to build a plant in Lovosice, north Bohemia, next year to launch a trial production of a second generation biofuel. Apart from biofuels, the plant would also produce electricity, Some 300 million crowns are needed to start the plant'soperation. The government would partly subsidise the plant's operation, which would be co-financed from the sales of heat. The Czech Republic will also apply for EU subsidies.
(Ceske Noviny)
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