Neste welcomes the French authorities’s ambition to extend the share of renewable vitality within the transport sector.
Neste welcomes the French authorities and Senate’s choice to extend the share of renewable vitality throughout the general vitality consumption of the transport sector. This choice will pave the best way for essential steps ahead within the efforts to fight local weather change.
In January 2024, the required minimal share of renewable vitality will improve from 8.6% to 9.2% to additional speed up greenhouse gasoline emission (GHG) reductions within the transport sector. This improve comes as a welcomed resolution to assist the transport sector’s decarbonization roadmap in France and is in keeping with the EU’s revised binding targets for renewable vitality.
By 2030, 29% of the vitality consumption within the transport sector of all Member States must come from renewable sources, or obtain a 14.5% discount within the sector’s greenhouse gasoline depth via the usage of renewables.
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Katja Wodjereck, Govt Vice President, Renewable Merchandise at Neste mentioned:
The ambition proven by the French authorities in rising the required share of renewable vitality within the transport sector in France is a superb instance of how environmental and industrial insurance policies may be reconciled.
“In France, transportation is likely one of the largest sources of greenhouse gasoline emissions, accounting for greater than 30% of all such emissions. For France to succeed in carbon neutrality by 2050, all options are wanted to scale back the emissions,” Katja Wodjereck continues.
Neste’s dedication to scale back the transport sector’s emissions was illustrated in November with the signing of agreements with two gas distributors to promote Neste MY Renewable Diesel within the French market. Fuels corresponding to Neste MY Renewable Diesel™, produced from 100% renewable uncooked supplies, are a ready-to-go resolution for emission reductions.
They’re extensively accessible and their use helps cut back emissions from the prevailing fleet of each light-duty and heavy-duty automobiles in Europe and elsewhere. They’re an important piece of the sustainable mobility puzzle.
With Neste MY Renewable Diesel™, greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions may be diminished by as a lot as 75% to 95%* over the life cycle of the gas in comparison with fossil diesel. Neste MY Renewable Diesel is absolutely appropriate with all diesel engines and the prevailing gas distribution infrastructure. Neste MY Renewable Diesel has an analogous chemical composition to fossil diesel, making it a drop-in substitute to it.
Neste’s renewable diesel can be utilized unblended (100% focus, i.e. “neat”) with out the necessity for any adjustments within the diesel-powered automobiles or their engines. Using 100% renewable diesel is extensively permitted by automobile and engine producers.
Neste welcomes the French authorities’s ambition to extend the share of renewable vitality within the transport sector, December 21, 2023
