Controversy mounts over EU biofuels fall-out

The environmental group T&E says that the European Commission has received scientific reports casting a new negative light on biofuels due to their indirect impact on land use, but has not made them public.

Separately, a new report from the NGO, ActionAid, says that millions of people could starve if member states deliver on the EU’s target of sourcing 10% of its transport fuel from biofuels as a way of tackling climate change.

• Primary Source

Transport and Environment: Press Release, 12.2.10: Commission withholding key research on environmental impacts of biofuels http://www.transportenvironment.org/News/2010/2/Commission-withholding-key-research-on-environmental-impacts-of-biofuels/

ESO: Background information: Brazil warns EU on biofuel sustainability http://www.europeansources.info/record/brazil-warns-eu-on-biofuel-sustainability/

EurActiv: Links Dossier: Biofuels for transport http://www.euractiv.com/en/transport/biofuels-transport/article-152282

EurActiv, 15.2.10: EU biofuels target could starve millions of people http://www.euractiv.com/en/cap/biofuels-fuel-hunger-ngo-warns

ActionAid: Press Release, 15.2.10: Don’t fuel hunger, warns ActionAid report on biofuels in the EU http://www.actionaid.org/eu/index.aspx?PageID=5235

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