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Clonbio Group Ltd

Clonbio

Clonbio develops industrial projects in the fields of biofuels, biomaterials and nutrition.

Lobbying Activity

Response to High and low Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC) - risks biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels

7 Mar 2019

It is no secret that DG Energy's cynical handling of the RED biofuels file this decade led thousands of EU farmers and dozens of private investors to lose billions of Euros by believing that the text of the RED carried the force of law-- rather than just whatever whimsical meaning DG Energy decided from time to time. As a result DG Energy won't be able to fool any of these folks again; just a small group of people in the Commission have managed to kill off an entire asset class (biofuels) on an entire continent leaving Europe a backwater for an entire class of renewable energy. But with the Delegated Act, DG Energy is going international. At a stakeholder conference this week, Bernd Kuepker explained that what the Delegated Act means (this is important because no one could ever know this since the DA is simply unreadable) is that small farmers are exempt ONLY from the requirement to prove an economic justification for their investments. Kuepker advertised this as a great benefit to these small farmers. This is classic Commission destructiveness on biofuels issues. The small farmers in question sell 100% of their product to multinationals and have no pricing power. All the Commission has done (just exactly like it did in Europe) is create a system whereby the least vulnerable stakeholders (farmers) are convinced to make investments out of their own pockets in order to capture some hoped for amorphous biofuels premium. But then that premium never appears in the market, so the farmers get screwed. And thanks to DG Energy there won't be any paper trail of what the farmers expected. So what the Commission sells as a benefit to smallholders is in fact depriving them of exactly the protection they need most- an articulated analysis of why their investment should pay off. This is deeply, deeply shameful.
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Meeting with Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

24 Jan 2017 · Renewables Directive

Meeting with Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete), Yvon Slingenberg (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

5 Jul 2016 · The contribution of bio-ethanol to the decarbonisation of transport

Meeting with Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and European Producers Union of Renewable Ethanol

27 Apr 2016 · International trade on ethanol