Next week MPs will be voting on whether to massively increase the use of biofuels in the UK.
Without stronger sustainability reporting requirements, any increase is likely to:
Fuel rainforest destruction.
* Increase food prices.
* Encourage destructive monocultures.
* The ability of most biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in any meaningful way is also in question.
The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) will make it compulsory to blend all road fuels with biofuels.
It doesn’t distinguish between different biofuels, and if it’s implemented there will be no going back.
Ask your MP to think twice before voting in favour of the......
Good intentions lain to waste:-The Governments draft biofuels policy, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), could see businesses producing biofuels by destroying rainforests and wetlands.This dash for biofuels:Is poorly thought outLacks appropriate safeguardsCould create more problems than it solvesGreenpeace, RSPB, WWF and Friends of the Earth are all demanding that the RTFO is strengthened so that it truely benefits the environment.Tell the Minister of State for Transport to choose the right...
