Germany massively increases biofuels targets to kickstart next generation fuels

 The German government has announced its new Biofuels Roadmap, with which it will massively increase the country's biofuels target, doubling it from 5% by 2010 to 10% by that year, and to 20% by 2020. This way it doubles the EU's biofuel targets (which require 10% of all fuels to be biofuels by 2020).

Europe's largest fuel consumer agreed on the measures after consultation with the agriculture, automotive and oil industry. The move is seen as a strategy to speed up the development of next generation biofuels. Germany is at the forefront of developing biomass-to-liquids fuels and new types of biodiesel based on hydrogenating plant oils.

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