POSITION PAPERS

24/12/2020 – Policy Recommendations from the ART Fuels Forum

Policy Recommendations from the ART Fuels Forum on the Vehicle LCA Study produced for DG CLIMA “Determining the environmental impacts of conventional and alternatively fuelled vehicles through LCA”

23/12/2020 – Review of DG CLIMA study ‘Determining the environmental impacts of conventional and alternatively fuels vehicles through LCA’

The ART Fuels Forum (AFF) has conducted a critical review of the study ‘Determining the environmental impacts of conventional and alternatively fuels vehicles through LCA’[1] that was commissioned by the European Commission’s DG Climate Action to provide a life cycle analysis of transport sector options.

7/9/2020 – Joint Heavy-Duty Vehicles & Passenger Cars Position Paper

The ART Fuels Forum has prepared a joint position paper on Heavy-Duty Vehicles & Passenger Cars.

16/6/2020 – Biomass can facilitate sector integration

The ART Fuels Forum has prepared a position paper on the contribution of biomass to sector integration.

26/05/2020 – Statement on the use of Recycled Carbon Fuels at Member State level

The ART Fuels Forum has prepared a statement on the use of Recycled Carbon Fuels at Member State level.

26/05/2020 – Future Fuels & Gasification Groups thoughts on Life Cycle Strategies for Recycled Carbon Fuels

The ART Fuels Forum has prepared a position paper on the foreseen Delegated Acts addressing the LCA methodology and thresholds for the RCF, respectively.

27/4/2020 – Feedback to DG FISMA on the DA of Taxonomy Regulation

The ART Fuels Forum (AFF) has provided feedback to the consultation launched by the uropean Commission on the Inception Impact Assessment of the Delegated Regulation on a climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy (DG FISMA).

24/4/2020 – Feedback to DG MOVE on the Inception Impact Assessment of the FuelEU Maritime Initiative

The ART Fuels Forum (AFF) has provided feedback to the consultation launched by the European Commission on the Inception Impact Assessment of the FuelEU Maritime Initiative (lead DG MOVE.D1). The document has been elaborated by the Maritime Group of the ART Fuels Forum.

3/4/2020 – THOUGHTS ON LIFE CYCLE STRATEGIES FOR RECYCLED CARBON FUELS GASES

The Future Fuels Working Group of the ART Fuels Forum has prepared a recommendation paper on the foreseen Delegated Acts addressing the LCA methodology and thresholds for the RCF, respectively.

24/02/2020 – Feedback to DG CLIMA concerning the development of methodologies for the first call of the European Innovation Fund

The ART Fuels Forum has joint forces with CO2 Value Europe and provided feedback to DG CLIMA concerning the development of methodologies for the first call of the European Innovation Fund.

14/02/2020 – Success Stories of Advanced Biofuels in Transport

Success stories of Advanced Biofuels in transport have been
collected for each of the sectors/areas of the ART Fuels Forum, providing an overview of
advanced industrial-scale technical solutions, lessons learnt and successful policy
implementation, showing eventually the potential and possibilities in ART fuels
technologies.

Statement on the co-processing

The ART Fuels Forum, bringing together the leading Industries in the area of alternative and renewable transportation fuels, urges the EC to find a practical way to finalize the Delegated Act on co-processing in such a way that maximum impact in line with the targets of RED II and the Paris Agreement can be achieved.

Narrative

The Narrative of the Forum supplemented with the one-pagers reflecting each of the Forum’s working groups.

ART Fuels Forum Flyer

The project promotional flyer, providing condensed information about the Forum, can be now found here.

27/02/2019 – High and low Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC) -risks biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels

The position paper is a response of the ART Fuels Forum to the draft delegated act on high low ILUC risk. The Forum understands that at this stage the low-iLUC risk certification serves to get an exemption to the limits posed on high-iLUC risk biofuels (phasing out by 2030). So, for now it is only relevant for palm oil, which is currently the only crop qualified as high iLUC risk. In that sense, it is assumed not to be relevant for crops cultivated in the EU. However, there is the possibility that some Member States decide to apply the low ILUC risk criteria for all biofuels feedstocks (not only high ilUC risk ones) and that in that case, a series of points need to be kept in mind regarding to European feedstocks. The specific ART Fuels Forum comments are provided in the position paper.

25/02/2019 – Feedback on the usability of the Taxonomy within the framework of Sustainable Financing

The ART Fuels Forum, bringing together the leading Industries in the area of alternative and renewable transportation fuels, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the Taxonomy pack.

18/01/2019 ART Fuels Forum Comments on the Public Consultation on the draft Innovation Fund Delegated Regulation

The ART Fuels Forum comments to the draft Delegated Regulation formulated after consultations with the AFF coordinators. It is noted that this document does not necessarily reflect, partially or in full, the opinion of each and all members of the AFF, nor the opinion of the European Commission.

09/01/2019 – Well-to-Wheel (WtW): the right approach for road transportation

The ART Fuels Forum Passenger Cars and Heavy-Duty Vehicles teams call for a Well-to-Wheel (WtW) approach in road transportation, as a necessary, more realistic and transparent method compared to the today used Tank-to-Wheel (TtW) approach.

We strongly believe that renewable and recycled carbon fuels represent sustainable, effective, technology neutral and pragmatic pathways towards passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles decarbonization and climate goals.

Lipid-Based Biofuels Position Paper

The challenge of decarbonising the European transport sector is huge. Therefore the full potential of all options has to be taken into account. It is well known that lipid-based biofuels are currently providing the majority of renewable energy into the EU transport sector, and that the EU has set sustainability criteria for them. Setting ambitious targets for the years 2021-2030 would allow the use of the current options and, in addition, would provide interest for additional investments in the EU.

The Lipids-based Biofuels Group of the ART Fuels Forum suggests that (a) the ambitious overall decarbonization targets can be achieved through the utilization of any sustainable renewable options, including sustainable crop-based fuels and sustainable waste and residue-based fuels, and that (b), in order to help investments, a binding sub-target which can be fulfilled with biofuels produced from feedstocks listed in Annex IX, part A should provide a trajectory for 2021-2030 with binding milestones.

Biogas Done Right in Transport with best practice examples

Agriculture and traffic are among the largest sources of GHG emission with 12% resp. 14% of global emission. Any process to reduce emission from the two sources is actually an urgent need. Biofuels and agriculture are naturally closely related and therefore a combined action to improve sustainability of agriculture and traffic is the recommended way to take. Bioenergy is a controversial issue, questioned by many scientists and policymakers. Many among them believe that there is no way to produce organic carbon for bioenergy without harming environment and direct or indirect impact on food and feed availability. However, with today’s agricultural technologies integrating biogas production, sequential cropping and precision farming we can produce GHG neutral or even GHG negative BioEnergy while Capturing and Sequestering Carbon (BECCS); without limiting food and feed production and with a low risk of indirect land use change (iLUC). This concept called Biogas Done Right has been proven by Italian farmers motivated by the Italian Biogas Association.

Position paper on Biogas Done Right

The Alternative and Renewable Transport (ART) Fuel Forum, established under EC financing and bringing together high-level representatives from the advanced biofuels, renewable fuels and CCU industry and the transport sector, has published a Position paper about the Biogas Done Right concept and its applicability for biomethane production and utilization in transport.

The ART Fuels Biomethane group strongly recommends to include the so called “Biogas Done Right” agricultural system with sequential cropping under the advanced biofuel definition in the EU legislation (RED 2009/28/EC Annex IX, Part A and RED II). It corresponds entirely to the definition in Article 2 of the Directive EU 2015/1513. The group considers the closed cycle of Biogas Done Right with food, feed and biomethane production as a most environmental friendly and low iLUC biofuel production without competing against food or feed.

Position Paper on the Establishment of the Innovation Fund

DG Climate Action of the European Commission has opened a Public Consultation on the Establishment of the Innovation Fund that addresses future public support to advanced biofuels and other emerging low-carbon technologies. The Alternative and Renewable Transport (ART) Fuel Forum, consisting of members that are directly affected stakeholders, recognizes financing as one of its main strategic areas in which the Forum intends to give policy recommendations. Thus, the coordination team of the ART Fuels Forum has contributed to this consultation by drafting a Position Paper on the Establishment of the Innovation Fund.

Position Paper on Post 2020 light vehicle CO2 Regulation(s)

The Alternative and Renewable Transport (ART) Fuel Forum, established under EC financing and bringing together high-level representatives from the advanced biofuels, renewable fuels and CCU industry and the transport sector, has published a Position paper as response to the call for feedback in the initiative of the EC: Post 2020 light vehicle CO2 Regulation(s).

Joint Statement on the RED II proposal

The ART Fuels Forum has released a Joint Statement on the RED II proposal: The objective of the Renewable Energy Directive must be to establish the best conditions to optimize the use of renewable energy in transportation and to limit the use of fossil fuels.

Position Paper on Power-to-X

The ART Fuels Forum has published a position paper to address industry concerns on the potential consequences of the current policy proposals (RED II) for the Power-to-X pathway.

ART Fuels Forum Position on RED II

The ART Fuels Forum has published its position on the RED II proposal in the form of Key Messages categorized in four broad categories, namely:
(1) Advanced Biofuel Definition,
(2) Targets, Mandates and Penalties,
(3) Policy Framework and Support Schemes,
(4) Emissions and Sustainability Criteria. 
The Forum has also prepared Sector-specific Messages for RED II, pertinent to the main focus of the considered ART Fuels production and transport consumption industries, as well as Messages covering the International perspective of RED II. 
The messages have been consolidated based on the input of the approximately 100 Forum experts following a thorough internal consultation procedure.