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The Accel AgroBiogas project reveals that inadequate coordination between EU energy and agricultural legislation is hindering the climate benefits of crop-based biogas. Participants at a policy workshop discussed challenges in integrating sequential crops and crop residues into biogas production, particularly the absence of standardized carbon accounting methods.

Current regulations complicate soil carbon verification, leading to low climate benefit ratings for crop substrates, which makes biogas less commercially viable. The existing certification systems favor manure, disadvantaging promising feedstocks like grass. The partnership will publish a position paper in spring to address these legislative gaps, focusing on the Nordic context.