ePURE: Renewable EU ethanol 🌱

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@ePURE_ethanol's Craig Winneker argues that sustainable biofuels can play a bigger role in transport, supporting European farmers and industry, and strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomy. Partner content

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Column from the April Issue by @ePURE_ethanol’s David Carpintero: A European Declaration of Independence

Carpintero examines how policy shifts could unlock domestic biofuel potential while supporting agriculture, competitiveness and energy security.

https://t.co/VGzTZ1t3Of.

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...and greater policy support. Once again, the EU-Australia deal’s concession highlights the absence of a comprehensive cumulative impact assessment of EU free trade agreements on sensitive sectors such as ethanol

Our full statement: https://t.co/v8fAFkXPfX

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🥊 It's yet another gut-punch to Europe’s strategically important renewable ethanol industry

The newly announced trade agreement between the EU and Australia is the latest blow to Europe’s renewable ethanol industry, already reeling from the EU-Mercosur deal

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The EU-Australia deal gives duty-free EU access to 10,000 tonnes of Australian ethanol: a major concession on a highly sensitive sector at a time when European renewable ethanol producers face significant competition from producers around the world who enjoy lower energy costs...

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This was confirmed by Commissioner Christophe Hansen at a Global Food Forum debate. “There is a huge potential to do more” when it comes to making better use of renewable energy source such as biofuels, Commissioner Hansen said, according to Politico.

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Which EU Commissioner just said the “tank vs plate dilemma belongs to the past” and that biorefineries are an important solution for EU energy security?

Read our press release on why renewable ethanol is essential to EU energy security, and ‘there is a huge potential to do more’

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As war in the Middle East makes fossil fuel dependence even more unsustainable, it’s clear that Europe needs to boost its domestic biofuel production

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Dramatic geopolitical repositioning requires Europe to think more about its resilience, competitiveness and independence, and making the best use of domestic assets such as renewable ethanol biorefineries

Read more here: https://t.co/LwqnbUDbiJ

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🇪🇺 A European Declaration of Independence

ePURE's David Carpintero @DCLASN writes in @EthanolMagazine: "There has never been a more important time for the EU to adopt policies that make the best use of strategic domestic assets"

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🚨🚨Mercosur Agreement provisional application: a further blow to Europe’s agriculture

The announcement this Friday of the @EU_Commission’s intention to proceed with the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur Agreement could only be perceived by the farming sector, gathered today in Brussels at the Praesidia of @COPACOGECA, as a disregard for the well-founded concerns we have been raising for years alongside environmental organisations, labour unions, and consumer groups regarding the impacts of this agreement !

These concerns relate not only to increased import volumes, which put pressure especially on sensitive sectors such as beef, poultry, and sugar, but also to persistent asymmetries in production standards, environmental requirements, animal welfare rules, use of plant protection products, and labour standards, on which the EU has obtained no guarantees capable of truly reassuring producers and consumers. The recent DG SANTE audit report on beef and the continued use of hormones only reinforces these concerns for both producers and consumers.

It is therefore deeply troubling that the agreement is being pushed through under provisional application, not only disregarding the farming community’s concerns, but also contradicting repeated assurances by the Commission that such a far-reaching and controversial trade agreement would not be implemented without comprehensive Parliamentary consent, especially following the recent ECJ referral vote.

🚜 Proceeding in this manner will leave a lasting political mark and risks further undermining trust between European institutions and rural communities !

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Read our full statement here: https://t.co/Di6PxvKL9Z

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📡PRESS RELEASE: European renewable ethanol producers oppose provisional application of the EU-Mercosur agreement

The European Commission is ignoring the wishes of the European Parliament and endangering EU production of food, feed, fuel and more

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The European Commission’s decision to circumvent the democratic process by provisionally applying the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is yet another sign that the deal is a bad one for Europe – especially for the strategically important EU renewable ethanol industry

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⌛ "From a policy perspective it's a really important time because the EU has a chance to make sure that its transport policy doesn't bet on only one technology for reducing car emissions"

📺 Watch our interview with ePURE's own @CraigWinneker

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ICYMI: Check out the highlights of this event on the importance of renewable ethanol to EU road transport de-fossilisation and to European food security

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📢Do you wish to know more about how the #EU’s renewable fuel production can drive the de-fossilisation of road transport and strengthen food security?

📗 Read the highlights of the event: https://t.co/9Z3PQKI8kE

📽️Watch the full debate on our YouTube channel

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📺 Watch the video below to hear what MEP @norbertlins has to say about how crop-based biofuels such as renewable ethanol should play a bigger role in transport decarbonisation, and about the importance of European biorefineries for energy independence and agricultural autonomy

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📺 Watch our new video to hear what MEP @BenoitCassart has to say about the importance of European renewable ethanol biorefineries for

💧 energy independence
🚗 transport decarbonisation
👩‍🌾 agricultural autonomy

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🌫️💥 Enough smoke and mirrors! EU-Mercosur Agreement remains unacceptable!

Two days before the large-scale farmers protest on the streets of Brussels, Copa-Cogeca, supported by @AvecPoultry @SugarBeetEurope @SugarEurope @ePURE_ethanol, SELMA, iEthanol, EUWEP and @CEPM_maize urge EU lawmakers to reject the Mercosur Agreement.

🔗Read our joint statement: https://t.co/rxrwQsjJ0s

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👍together with @COPACOGECA @SugarEurope @AvecPoultry @CEPM_maize @ePURE_ethanol we also opposed this urgent procedure & stressed how ineffective these safeguards are and how unbalanced & unfair this deal is for EU farmers.
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