Carbon and sustainability reporting within the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation - Technical guidance

Jan 2008

The Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) requires suppliers wishing to claim Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs) to provide a carbon and sustainability (C&S) report. This technical guidance describes how these reports are to be provided.
Reporting is an important first step in creating a market for sustainable biofuels, but to be successful the scheme requires commitment from all parties in the biofuel supply chain and their stakeholders.
The Guidance has been developed following extensive stakeholder engagement and consultation and detailed piloting and is based upon the best available knowledge at the current time. The RFA will continue to develop the Guidance through benchmarking additional standards and producing new default factors and fuel chains and will periodically update the guidance in consultation with stakeholders. In updating the Guidance it will take account of, and seek to influence EU and global schemes for assurance of biofuels.
Attention should be given to the annexes contained in this technical guidance:

  • Guidance on sustainability standards
  • Eligible by-products
  • Criteria and Indicators of the RTFO Sustainable Biofuel Meta-Standard
  • Benchmark of Standards
  • Guideline on definition of idle land
  • Example records for Chain of Custody
  • Assessing carbon intensity and calculating direct GHG saving
  • Assessing the impact of land use change
  • Accuracy level
  • Standard Terms

By: Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA)

 
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