Sentences with phrase «fuel quality directive»

President Barroso should stop giving in to the oil industry and fully implement the Fuel Quality Directive now.»

The Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) is an EU law that aims to lower emissions from Europe's transport fuel by 6 % by 2020.

For example, Froman apparently has already been successful in challenging an EU fuel quality directive that would limit shipments to Europe of dirty tar sands oil, including that which would flow through pipelines like the proposed Keystone XL system for export from U.S. ports.

In «Dirty Deals ``, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environmental groups reveal how U.S. negotiators at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks work to undermine the EU's Fuel Quality Directive and unleash exports of dirty fuels, including tar sands oil, a highly intensive source of greenhouse gas emissions.

In large part, this explains why the Alberta and Canadian governments, in cooperation with the oil industry, have been lobbying to undermine progressive climate policy, such as the European Union's Fuel Quality Directive and similar proposals in many U.S. states.

Canadian government ministers have been actively lobbying the governments of 11 EU member states, European Parliament and Commission to weaken one of the EU's headline pieces of climate legislation, the Fuel Quality Directive.

In 2009 the European Union agreed to reduce emissions from transport fuels through a law known as the Fuel Quality Directive.

Friends of the Earth Europe, Transport & Environment and Greenpeace are calling on the European Commission to finally implement a strong Fuel Quality Directive to keep the most polluting fuels out of Europe.

These imports would undermine the Fuel Quality Directive's aim to reduce fuels emissions by 6 %.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

«The Canadian government is heavily lobbying European countries to derail European climate change efforts, such as the Fuel Quality Directive aimed at reducing emissions from imported transport fuels.

The two groups are calling on President Obama to block Keystone XL, and for President Barroso to implement the EU's Fuel Quality Directive [2] with a specific value for tar sands — to prevent tar sands from flooding the U.S. and European markets [3].

[2] The EU's Fuel Quality Directive, adopted in 2009, is the only piece of the EU's 2020 climate package yet to be implemented.

Named the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), the law has been in limbo almost ever since.

Next week, the EU is expected to vote on the Fuel Quality Directive which would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, including some which may or may not actually have higher emissions than oilsands oil.

The Fuel Quality Directive has attracted a great deal of attention here in Canada because it would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, and I have -LSB-...]

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[2] Background: The production and consumption of biofuels grew dramatically from 2008 - 2009 when two EU directives — on Renewable Energy (RED) and Fuel Quality (FQD)-- were adopted that included binding targets for 10 % of transport energy to be derived from renewable energy by 2020, almost all biofuels.

The new Directive is meant to amend Directive 98 / 70 / EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amend Directive 2009 / 28 / EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources.