Since its inception in 2009, the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), a European Union regulation aimed at reducing the climate impact of transport fuels, has been attacked by powerful lobby
interests that do not want the EU to take action to curtail the use of particularly greenhouse gas intensive fossil fuels. While the FQD aims to reduce the climate impact of fossil fuels by addressing all sources of high carbon oil (for example oil shale, coal-to-liquid or tar sands), the oil industry has waged an extensive lobby campaign to portray the FQD as unfairly discriminating against one specific oil source: tar sands.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/dirty-deals
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/friends-earth-europe
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossil-fuels
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/europe
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trade
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/european-union-eu
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/canada
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fuel-quality
