One billion litres of diesel counted towards transport climate targets

Nearly 1 billion litres of diesel have been counted towards Ireland’s transport renewable energy targets since 2011, despite not being a renewable, The Sunday Business Post can reveal.

This is as a result of biodiesel – a renewable biofuel mixed in with diesel – being counted twice on paper towards our transport renewable targets. The real world effect of this double counting of biodiesel is that half the recorded volume is actually made ...