LETTER TO YOUR MEPs

Please ask MEPs to vote against biofuel targets and for an agrofuel moratorium

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Background

On 7th July, the EU Parliament Environment Committee will vote on the Renewable Energy Directive. Already, the current 5.75% biofuel target and the EU's declared intention to further increase this to 10% by 2020 is encouraging large-scale land conversion to agrofuel monocultures across the world, as well as investment in refineries and infrastructure, including roads, waterways and ports which will open up the world's last large continuous tropical forests to destruction.

The 'sustainability criteria' put forward by the European Commission are completely inadequate. They include no social criteria - i.e. they allow even agrofuels linked to human rights abuses to be classed as 'sustainable', they leave many large biodiverse areas, such as the Brazilian Cerrado, unprotected, and they include greenhouse gas default values which are contrary to peer-reviewed studies. However, even if the criteria were strengthened, they would still not address indirect impacts, i.e. the fact higher commodity prices are already leading to large-scale monoculture expansion at the expense of rainforests, small farmers and other communities, food production, food prices, wetlands and other biodiverse ecosystems all over the world.

Only a moratorium on agrofuels from large-scale monocultures and, in particular, on all targets and incentives, can prevent further harm (see: www.econexus.info/biofuels.html).

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