Traduction de «land-based biofuel » (Anglais → Français) :

Yield increases in agricultural sectors through intensified research, technological development and knowledge transfer beyond levels which would have prevailed in the absence of productivity-promoting schemes for food and feed crop-based biofuels, as well as the cultivation of a second annual crop on areas which were previously not used for growing a second annual crop, can contribute to mitigating indirect land-use change.

(16) Yield increases in agricultural sectors beyond levels which would have prevailed in the absence of productivity promoting schemes for food and feed crop based biofuels, or where biofuel production takes place on land where direct land use change occurred without negative impacts on pre-existing ecosystem services delivered by that land, including protection of carbon stocks and biodiversity, could in specific cases contribute to mitigating indirect land-use change to an extent which goes beyond the effects already accounted for i ...[+++]n the existing modelling of indirect land use change.

7. Emphasises the need to reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sector; notes, in this respect, that some biofuels are failing to live up to expectations as regards GHG emission reductions, can contribute to rising food prices by competing for land and may threaten access to vital resources, including land and water, for local and indigenous communities in developing countries; takes the view that in order to avoid negative impacts on the right to food, public incentives for the production of crop-based biofuels (such as the ...[+++]binding 10 % EU target for renewable energy in transport or subsidies) must be reduced and removed no later than 2020; calls, in particular, for effective measures to prevent harmful social and environmental impacts of biomass for energy production for European markets;

Notes that the target of 10 % renewables by 2020 in the transport sector is significantly lagging behind, partly owing to the challenges for a biofuel-based renewable strategy for transport; recalls that transport is the only sector in the EU where GHG emissions have risen since 1990; points out that renewable energies are key to achieving sustainable mobility; calls on the Member States to increase their efforts to deploy sustainable measures in the transport sector such as demand reduction, a modal shift towards more sustainable modes, better efficiency and the electrification of the transport sector; calls on the Commission to develop a framework for the promotion of the use of electric vehicles fed by renewable electricity and to im ...[+++]prove the legislative framework so that it offers prospects for biofuels with high GHG-efficiency, taking into account indirect land use change (ILUC) in the period after 2020.

Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land-use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies.

Based on forecasts of biofuel demand provided by the Member States and estimates of indirect land-use change emissions for different biofuel feedstocks, it is likely that greenhouse gas emissions linked to indirect land-use change are significant, and could negate some or all of the greenhouse gas emission savings of individual biofuels.