Food price fears push EU lawmakers to put a limit on biofuels growth
date:Sep 12, 2013
Lawmakers voting in Strasbourg on Wednesday set a ceiling on the use of such fuels at 6 percent of overall transport fuel demand in the European Union in 2020.

Although slightly higher than the 5 percent cap proposed by the European Commission in October, it deals a blow to EU biofuel producers by effectively preventing them from increasing current output.

In 2009, the bloc set a target for a 10 percent share of renewable energy in transport, with almost all of it to come from so-called first
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