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The shipping industry’s target of net-zero carbon emissions has boosted demand for biofuels, which are compatible with existing ship engines and therefore can be adopted relatively easily. However, Rystad Energy analysis shows that the capacity to produce biofuels—such as biodiesel and bio-liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG)—is not keeping up. Unconstrained biodiesel demand exceeds total supply and […]
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The Trump administration unveiled a proposal to significantly raise the volume of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into the US fuel supply over the next two years. The move is largely driven by a sharp increase in biomass-based diesel mandates and includes provisions aimed at curbing biofuel imports. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed […]
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The European Union has offered to subsidise airline purchases of more than 200 million litres of sustainable aviation fuels to encourage carriers to swap kerosene for cleaner alternatives, Reuters calculations show. The calculations, based on European Commission data, suggest that the subsidies could trigger a significant boost to airline demand for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), […]
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that it expects Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production to reach 2 million tonnes (Mt) (2.5 billion liters) or 0.7% of airlines’ total fuel consumption in 2025. “While it is encouraging that SAF production is expected to double to 2 million tonnes in 2025, that is just 0.7% […]
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What a month for the CARBIOW project consortium! On one hand, our Slovenian partner, Kemijski inštitut – National Institute of Chemistry, published CARBIOW’s sixth scientific paper. This time, it was in volume 252 of the prestigious journal Renewable Energy (17.6 CiteScore | 9.1 Impact Factor) by Elsevier, and the authors were Andrii Kostyniuk and Blaž […]
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CARBIOW project’s activity at the 33rd European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE), held in Valencia (Spain) from 9 to 12 June, has been very intense. On Monday, June 9, our colleague Michelle Gian from Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) joined the Conference to present a poster on the CARBIOW project. Within the session entitled “Perspectives […]
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US President Donald Trump has urged oil and biofuels producers to negotiate a compromise on the future of US biofuels policy, aiming to avoid the political clashes that defined his first term in office. The oil industry and biofuel producers have long competed for a share of the multi-billion dollar US gasoline market, often clashing […]
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With one year to go, the CARBIOW project is intensifying liaison with European organisations and projects by attending high-level stakeholder events. In the last six months, CARBIOW partners have represented the project at major meetings focused on biocircularity and the circular economy, at a cluster meeting on ‘Biomethane for marine and aviation fuels’, and at […]
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The CARBIOW project was present at the Basque Circular Summit 2025, held from 2 to 4 April in Bilbao, Spain, where our partner and project coordinator, TECNALIA, had a stand. There, the CARBIOW videos were played continuously, bringing them closer to an audience of more than 1,300 stakeholders. The Basque Circular Summit 2025 is a […]