Sustainability

An independent life cycle assessment carried out by Eunomia on the production of INEOS Bio Ethanol from waste biomass indicates that greenhouse gas savings of more than 90% vs. gasoline could be achieved (see download below).  This saving is significantly higher than the best performing bioethanol today, which is sugar cane ethanol made in Brazil, (reported to deliver up to 70% greenhouse gas savings).

 

A key driver for the increased use of biofuels is to reduce the Green house gas (GHG) emissions from the road transport sector. However, the Gallagher review, issued on July 7th 2008 notes; ‘there is growing concern about the role of biofuels in rising food prices, accelerating deforestation and doubts about the climate benefits. This has led to serious questions about their sustainability and extensive campaigns against higher targets.

Concern was further raised among policy makers when the paper by Searchinger (Searchinger et al 2008) asserted that US biofuels production on agricultural land displaced existing agricultural production, causing land-use change leading to increased net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.’

 

In addition to delivering greater GHG savings than all existing bioethanol production, the INEOS Bio process does not require food crops or any agricultural land or agrichemical use. It fully addresses all the concerns raised by the Gallagher review for the production of biofuels for the gasoline (petrol) market. We believe that the INEOS Bio process is the most sustainable bioethanol production process in the world today.