Japan: Japan Begins Review of its Transport Biofuel Policy

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   JA2022-0077

Japan held the first public meeting of the expert committee to update Japan’s biofuel target. Japan’s current on-road biofuel target expires in March 2023.

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