EUBCE 2025 - David CHIARAMONTI - Biomass to Carbon Accounting: Exploiting EU Policies Towards a Common Approach on Sustainable Biofuels

Biomass to Carbon Accounting: Exploiting EU Policies Towards a Common Approach on Sustainable Biofuels

Short Introductive summary

The biofuel sector can exploit a set of different options – in addition to biofuels - to reach the climate goal, from electricity to eFuels to hydrogen to intermodal transport: nevertheless, current and future sustainable biofuels technologies offer a quick, climate-effective and socio-economic sustainable solution to greening transports. Several EU regulations directly or indirectly deal with making and marketing sustainable biofuels: among these, a major innovation in policy (REDI-III) lies in the possibility for Member States to report on Carbon footprint (14.5 % reduction target) instead of energy/volumes (29% target). This approach creates the conditions to reward the most GHG-performing biofuel chains. Also, REDII-Implementing Regulation introduced a metric for accounting Soil Carbon Accumulation in the GHG performances of biofuel paths. This work presents examples of accounting Carbon in different biofuel chains, from lipids to biomethane, reporting it towards climate goals. The opportunities from adopting an integrated approach, valorizing different EU policies in a whole coordinated vision, are here discussed, as they can disruptively change the biofuel perspective.