Workshop on biofuels – eco saviours or destroyers?

"A few years ago biofuels were seen as the solution to the climate change problem. Today, some say that biofuels...are not part of the solution but part of the problem". This is how Dutch Socialist Dorette Corbey opened a workshop on biofuels in Parliament on 4 March 2008. Scientists, NGOs and representatives from biofuel exporting countries joined MEPs to discuss whether biofuels are sustainable and to what extent they can help tackle climate change and reduce CO2 emissions.