At a meeting in Japan last weekend, the environment ministers of the G7 countries gave Italy’s big biofuels industry a boost.
The EU last month passed decade-in-the-making legislation to ban combustion-engine cars from 2035, including those running on biofuels made from plant or animal waste. The goal is to make all European cars run on non-polluting electric engines, a blow to Italian and German makers of cars and components as well as companies investing heavily in fuels made from renewable energy sources.
But Italian hopes of securing an exception to the ban for cars run on biofuels have been raised by the statement from G7 ministers in Japan that mentioned both e-fuels and biofuels as a climate-friendly alternatives to petrol and diesel.
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