Biodiesel’s outstanding record on greenhouse gas emissions is reducing renewable fuels demand: UFOP

In Germany, UFOP says that despite record consumption of around 37 million tons of diesel fuel, in 2015, biodiesel sales fell by 0.165 million tons compared with 2014. The admixture proportion of biodiesel fell by 6.5 percent in 2014 to 5.8 percent, according to information provided by the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control. The reason? UFOP contents that an evaluation of sustainability certificates by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food for the first quarter of 2015, found that greenhouse gas reductions compared with fossil fuels were, on average, 60 percent, instead of the target of 35 percent stipulated by law at that time.  Accordingly, the mineral oil industry was therefore able to meet the the climate change obligation of 3.5 percent even with a drop in biodiesel blending.

UFOP pointed out that biofuel production is by far the most important sales market for rapeseed oil and therefore makes a considerable contribution to the stabilisation of producer prices. The union regrets that, in the area of non-food or food usage, the dramatic drop in plant oil prices has not resulted in an increase in sales.

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