News / Threat from palm oil fraud sees EC turn its back on biofuel certification

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Questioning the legitimacy of supposedly waste-derived biofuels – an industry said to be in the grip of endemic fraud – the EU may halt recognised certifications, likely impacting shipping lines’ green-insetting offerings.

Data suggests a third of used cooking oil (UCO) biofuel in the European market is fake, containing, instead, large proportions of virgin palm oil, a non-residual product plantation-farmed on deforested land.

Palm-oil permeation could threaten the biofuel insetting services offered in good faith by ...