Open Letter to UNCTAD: Withdraw misleading advanced biofuels report

Today Biofuelwatch and six other groups (Center for Biological Diversity, ETC Group, Friends of the Earth U.S., Global Justice Ecology Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and International Center for Technology Assessment) have called on the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to withdraw a report which falsely claims that second generation biofuels –which are made from wood, grasses or crop residues – have become a ”commercial reality.” In an Open Letter to UNCTAD, the groups warned that the report’s conclusion is based on such profound factual inaccuracies and misleading industry claims that it should be withdrawn.

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