Glob­al Bioen­er­gies greets the French par­lia­ment’s pro­pos­al aim­ing to pro­mote a French bio-jet fuel industry

Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment have begun to review the draft Mobil­ity Ori­ent­a­tion Law. Sev­er­al sen­at­ors wanted air trans­port to be addressed in the text. Among the vari­ous options that have emerged to cre­ate a more envir­on­ment­ally friendly air trans­port, bio­fuels are now con­sidered as a cent­ral solu­tion. The gov­ern­ment has already launched a French roadmap for bio-jet fuel, and at the clos­ing of the ​“Nation­al Con­fer­ence on air trans­port­a­tion”, the Min­is­ter gave the pro­spect of 2% bio-jet fuel in air trans­port­a­tion by 2025. The imple­ment­a­tion of an on-demand sup­port mech­an­ism to ensure that a dur­able mar­ket emerges is men­tioned as a pre­requis­ite for this devel­op­ment. We are there­fore call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to spe­cify the prac­tic­al pro­ced­ures tied to this sup­port in order to instil the con­fid­ence of all the eco­nom­ic act­ors. Bern­ard Chaud, Dir­ect­or of Indus­tri­al Strategy at Glob­al Bioen­er­gies, said: ​“Our innov­at­ive solu­tion is in sync with the prin­ciples of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy. Pro­duc­tion plants in rur­al areas would make it pos­sible to dir­ectly sup­ply mul­tiple nearby air­ports, cre­ate hun­dreds of jobs, guar­an­tee addi­tion­al out­lets for agri­cul­tur­al indus­tries residues and for ligno­cel­lu­losic bio­mass residues, and, in that way, revital­ise part of the coun­try. There are many chal­lenges, and the eco­nom­ic act­ors need to feel con­fid­ent if they are to con­tin­ue invest­ing in and build­ing these plants; we are eager to learn the prac­tic­al details of the pub­lic sup­port for the pro­mo­tion of this industry.” Marc Del­court, CEO of Glob­al Bioen­er­gies, said: ​“France is well posi­tioned in this slot. Last year, Nor­way insti­tuted the first bio-ker­osene man­date in the world. This top­ic is also under dis­cus­sion in Sweden and Spain. In the near future, all of Europe will be shift­ing to using bio-ker­osene in civil avi­ation.” Source: Glob­al Bioen­er­gies, press release, 13.03.2019