Some months ago I covered Amelia Sharman's paper on the way the EU mandate on biofuels had come into being - a tale of corruption and graft if ever there was one.
Having spent the last five years enforcing the use of biofuels, the commisison has now changed course:
The European Union will impose a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels over fears they are less climate-friendly than initially thought and compete with food production, draft EU legislation seen by Reuters showed. The draft rules, which will need the approval of EU governments and lawmakers, represent a major shift in Europe's much-criticized biofuel policy and a tacit admission by policymakers that the EU's 2020 biofuel target was flawed from the outset. Flawed from the outset? That's a strange way of summarising what happened. The policy was never intended to reduce carbon emissions - it was designed to benefit a handful of farmers. H/T Roddy Campbell.