Webinar Carbon Accounting Renewables Fuels

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EU-India SAGB Webinar

The Carbon Accounting Renewable Fuels webinar took place on 28 August 2024 and was organised by the EU-India Stakeholder Group on Advanced Biofuels (EU-India SGAB) in the context of the EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership.

Carbon accounting in the EU-RED

In the European Union fuel suppliers have to demonstrate that the renewable fuels they deliver to the transport market comply to the sustainability requirements set by the EU. part of consists of showing that the greenhouse gas emissions throughout the production and supply chain are below a threshold value in comparison to the fossil fuel reference. Specific calculation rules apply, how does that work?

Carbon emission reduction in the aviation and maritime sector

Both in the aviation sector and the maritime sector the awareness about the rising greenhouse gas emissions as a result of increasing air and sea travel. Currently, if the maritime and aviation sectors were countries, they would rank as 6th and 7th largest country globally, so there is a clear urgency to tackle the transition away from fossil fuels and implement measures to reduce future carbon emissions.

In the webinar the audience was informed about the details of the European calculation in the Renewable Energy Directive, about how the international organisations governing the aviation sector and the maritime sector, how involved industry players have developed carbon emission reduction plans and which global methodologies exist to calculate such reductions.

Programme

12:30 Welcome and introduction – Eric van den Heuvel, Partner at studio Gear Up, the Netherlands, and member of the EU expert team of EU-India SGAB (PDF)
12:40 GHG calculations for renewable transport fuels in the EU Renewable Energy Directive – Carlo Hamelinck, partner at studio Gear Up, the Netherlands (PDF)
13:00 Understanding GHG emission savings in the aviation sector – Matteo Prussi, Politecnico Torino, Italy (PDF)
13:20 How the international maritime sector developed an approach to GHG emission reduction – Sanna Frias Henriksen, A.P. Møller Maersk, Denmark (PDF)
13:40 Discussion on potential opportunities and barriers
14:00 End of Webinar

High blends of renewable fuels for the heavy-duty fleet in the Netherlands

KiM Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteit – KiM) commissioned studio Gear Up to conduct research to explore the options for high-blends of renewable fuels in the heavy-duty fleet. This research served as input for KiM’s (2025) report: Renewable fuels in high blends in road freight transport , which provides recommendations for Dutch policy makers aiming to shape climate action in the road sector. The study sets out to explore alternative fuel options available to heavy-duty vehicles given that there is “uncertainty about the pace of truck electrification”.

sGU recommendations for practical certification guidelines intermediate crops

Intermediate crops are crops planted and harvested between main crops in a crop rotation scheme. Their development, on top of existing food and feed farm output, offer additional volumes of feedstocks for the bioeconomy without requiring additional land. studio Gear Up assessed the benefits of intermediate crops, the bottlenecks for their development and deployment and provided recommendations for certification of these crops in the frame of the Renewable Energy Directive.

Consequences of ETS2 implementation on A-B-C deliveries of renewable fuels

Our research for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management shows that the introduction of the new ETS2 emissions trading system can have important consequences for these constructions. Because these A-B-C supply constructions play a major role in the Dutch fuel market, this is expected to make the use of A-B-C supplies less attractive for fuel suppliers, with market shift and concentration likely to result.