date:Sep 12, 2013
, a limit of 5 or 6 percent would call time on the once booming industry and force some existing plants to close.
Lawmakers backed an amendment that would force energy companies from 2020 to take account of the indirect emissions caused by crop-based biofuels, which increase overall demand for land and, as a result, encourage rainforest clearance or draining peatland.
That would effectively ban the use of biodiesel from oil crops such as rapeseed, palm and soy, which according to the EU's scie