5日在布魯塞爾召開的國際生物燃料會議上，歐盟執委會主席巴洛索在演講主旨中承諾，歐盟將以保護地球，而非製造新風險性的方式，來發展與生產生物燃料。
巴洛索在強調歐洲必須克服種種挑戰，以實現2020年時生物燃料佔汽車燃料10%的歐盟最新政策，同時，由於能源安全和氣候變遷議題的相互關聯，讓乙醇和生化柴油等生物燃料已成為全球最熱門的政治話題。
由於非食用性植物中提煉乙醇尚在技術發展階段，目前製造生物燃料的原料為甘蔗、甜菜、棕櫚油和小麥。生物燃料甚至可能成為化石燃料的代替品，因此它也具備減少溫室氣體排放量的可能性。
歐盟與巴西在5日簽署共同協議，將就雙方的能源議題交換意見。以歐盟與巴西現存的協議為基礎，這項對話將建立兩方在生物燃料、可再生能源、低碳燃料技術，以及能源效能改善等方面的合作，而第一次會議預計在今年秋天召開。
The European Union is committed to developing and producing biofuels "in ways that protect our planet – not in ways that create new risks," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in his keynote speech to the International Biofuels Conference in Brussels today.
The linked issues of energy security and climate change have placed biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel at the top of political agendas around the world, Barroso said, while underlining the challenges that Europe must overcome to meet the EU's new policy of including 10 percent biofuels in vehicle fuel by 2020.
While ethanol production from non-food plants is in the technical development stage, biofuels are currently made from sugar cane, sugar beet, palm oil and corn. To the extent that they can substitute for fossil fuels, biofuels hold the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Today, the EU and Brazil signed documents to establish an energy dialogue. Based on existing agreements between Europe and Brazil, the dialogue will develop bilateral cooperation in biofuels and other renewable energy sources, low carbon energy technologies, and the improvement of energy efficiency. The first meeting will take place this autumn.
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