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20:48, July 05, 2007 |
The target is part of a wider Renewable Energy Roadmap proposed by the European Commission in this January which aims to boost the the share of renewables in the EU''s energy mix to 20 percent by 2020.
The new EU policy envisages an immediate response to efforts to meet the target by encouraging the production and use of biofuels to replace petrol and diesel.
The transport sector, which produces nearly one third of the greenhouse gas emissions in EU, for example, depends solely on oil.
Brazil produced nearly 13 million tons of bio-ethanol in 2005, followed by the United States which produced 11.8 million tons in the same year.
The EU produced 3.9 million tons of biofuels in 2005, an increase of 60 percent over the previous year. EU production of bioethanol from cereals accounts for 0.73 million tons of the total and bio-diesel from rapeseed for 3.2 million tons, about one percent of EU petrol and diesel consumption.
Globally, the production of bioethanol for fuel use was approximately 26.9 million tons in 2005, accounting for around two percent of petrol use worldwide.
Source: Xinhua
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