Room: Amazon
Date: Friday, 22 May 2026
Time: 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Session code 2DO.8
Climate impact of methane and carbon reduction strategies
Impact of Methane Emissions on Biogas Pathways in the New Annex VI of the Renewable Energy Directive
Short Introductive summary
The amending Directive 2023/2413 (REDIII) elevates the ambition for decarbonization, updates and aligns the RED targets for 2030 with the more ambitious climate targets which was reflected on the thresholds of minimum GHG emission savings from bioenergy. Along with the latest policy developments, JRC updated the GHG emissions from biofuels and bioenergy pathways. This entails the inclusion of new pathways and introducing more recent findings as regards the evaluation of the climate impact. This offers a detailed method for accounting methane emissions in biogas production, with default values for best and standard practices, criteria for best practices, and consideration of methane losses throughout the supply chain, presented in this paper, with detailed methodology and background research.
Presenter
Oliver HURTIG
European Commission, JRC, ITALY
Presenter's biography
PhD in LCA of second generation biofuels at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, engineer in industry, research on biofuels at Joint Research Center of the European Commission.
Biographies and Short introductive summaries are supplied directly by presenters and are published here unedited
Co-authors:
M. Buffi, European Commission, JRC, Ispra, ITALY
R. Besseau, European Commission, JRC, Ispra, ITALY
B. Kulisic, European Commission, DG Energy, Brussels, BELGIUM
N. Scarlat, European Commission, JRC, Ispra, ITALY
Session reference: 2DO.8.2