Biofuel in the European Union - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

According to the European Union

European Union

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sustainability

Sustainability

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criteria: land with high carbon stocks and high biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

should not be converted for biofuel

Biofuel

Biofuel is a type of fuel whose energy is derived from biological carbon fixation. Biofuels include fuels derived from biomass conversion, as well as solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases...

production and biofuels should achieve a minimum level of greenhouse gas

Greenhouse gas

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone...

savings.

Biofuels
		Consumption 2005 (GWh)	Consumption 2006 (GWh)			Consumption 2007 (GWh)
No	Country	Total	Total	Biodiesel Biodiesel Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl esters. Biodiesel is typically made by chemically reacting lipids with an alcohol....	Bioethanol	Total	Biodiesel	Bioethanol
1	*	21,703	40,417	29,447	3,544	46,552	34,395	3,408
2		4,874	8,574	6,855	1,719	16,680	13,506	3,174
3		920	3,878	3,878	0	4,524	4,270	254
4		1,583	1,961	629	1,332	4,341	3,031	1,310
5		793	2,097	1,533	563	4,055	3,148	907
6	*	1,938	2,587	523	1,894	3,271	1,158	2,113
7		2	818	818	0	1,847	1,847	0
8		2 059	1,732	1,732	0	1,621	1 621	0
9			96	96	0	1,308	539	769
10		481	1 102	491	611	1,171	180	991
11		0	10	10	0	1,061	1,061	0
12		32	540	540	0	940	940	0
13		97	226	162	64	612	477	135
14		7	6	6	0	407	397	10
15		33	226	213	13	382	380	2
16		58	50	48	2	160	151	9
17		110	153	149	4	154	n.a.	154
18		28	139	4	136	107	0	107
19		0	371	172	179	101	n.a.	101
20		9	36	8	13	97	27	54
21		0	42	0	42	70	0	70
22		34	29	17	12	20	0	20
23		0	10	0	10	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
24		–	32	32	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
25		8	10	10	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
26		0	7	7	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
27		0	0	0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
27	EU	34,796	65,148	47,380	10,138	89,482	67,154	13,563
*Total includes vegetable oils in Germany: 7309 GWh (2006) and 2018 GWh (2005) and biogas in Sweden: 225 GWh (2006) and 160 GWh (2005), n.a. = not available

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