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Average greenhouse gas intensity of road transport fuels in the EU, 2010-2020
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Created 19 Sep 2022
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The EU has not succeeded in meeting its target to reduce, by 2020, the greenhouse gas emission intensity of fuels sold for road transport to 6% below 2010 levels. Between 2010 and 2020, the emission intensity decreased by 5.5%, mostly due to the increased use of biofuels. Eleven countries have succeeded in decreasing their emission intensities by more than 6%. If indirect land use change (ILUC) effects of biofuel production are considered, the emission intensity of fuels sold in the EU decreased slightly between 2019 and 2020.
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g CO2e/MJ: grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule of energy produced
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- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Average EU values (including and excluding indirect land-use change from biofuels production) calculated on the basis of 22 Member States submissions for 2017 (all except Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain), 28 submissions for 2018 and 2019 and 27 submissions for 2020.
GHG: greenhouse gas.
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2010-2020
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