Press Statement: A mixed bag: European Parliament vote on the RED revision
Yesterday the European Parliament voted its position on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Read our press statement on the results of the vote here.
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09, 2022
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07, 2022
Committee adopts pragmatic approach to Renewable Energy Directive Revision
Yesterday the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee adopted its report on the revised Renewable Energy Directive. The report takes some pragmatic positions. Read our press statement here.
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06, 2022
How the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security
As part of our annual congress in Bratislava CEFS today hosted a roundtable discussion on how the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security. Speakers included MEP Alexander Bernhuber MEP (EPP, Austria), Dr. Andreas Schneider from the Cabinet of Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, Martin Pitorák, Director of Fuels and Energy at [...]
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06, 2022
How the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security
As part of our annual congress in Bratislava CEFS today hosted a roundtable discussion on how the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security. Speakers included MEP Alexander Bernhuber MEP (EPP, Austria), Dr. Andreas Schneider from the Cabinet of Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, Martin Pitorák, Director of Fuels and Energy at [...]
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05, 2022
REPowerEU: How the self-use of biomass residues can support energy independence
On 18 May 2022 the Commission published its REPowerEU Plan. It identifies the scaling up of biomethane as key to reducing EU reliance on Russian gas and reiterates the target set in March: 35 billion cubic metres of EU biomethane production by 2030. The plan lists a set of actions to achieve this goal: an [...]
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09, 2021
Joint Declaration - The European Parliament must not make the Farm to Fork strategy untenable for the agri-food sector
On Thursday, the ENVI and AGRI Committees of the European Parliament will vote on their draft report presenting their official reaction to the Farm to Fork strategy. While the first studies on the impact of the strategy launched by the Commission in 2020 show extremely worrisome trends, MEPs are planning to call for several additional [...]
