Open letter signed by 7 organisations.
Almuth
Response to consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
Response to consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.
“In defence of food sovereignty and biodiversity”
Declaration of the First Patagonian Conference on Biofuels, Argentina, signed by Coalition of Popular Assemblies of the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro and Neuquen, Patagonia, Public Workers Union (ATE), Argentine Central Workers Association (CTA), Provincial Teachers...
Environmental groups condemn IPCC call for large scale biofuels as a climate disaster in the making
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Argentinean Soy Biofuels For The UK Fishing Fleet?
Joint report by Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina and Biofuelwatch. Download
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps
Declaration, Paraguay, signed by ALTER VIDA, ASAGRAPA, BASE IS, CCDA, CEIDRA, CMB, CNOCIP, CONAMURI, Federacion de Pueblos Guaranies, GRR (Arg), IDECO, Iniciativa Paraguaya de Integracion de los Pueblos, MAP, MCNOC, ONAC, SEPA, SERPAJ, PY, SOBREVIVENCIA/Friends of the...
EU Governments Must Protest Against Arrests of Uganda’s Rainforest Activists
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Declaration of Nyeleni
Declaration signed by over 500 representatives of 80 countries in support of the right to food sovereignty. It includes a statement against “the ‘Green Deserts’ of industrial bio-fuel monocultures and other plantations”.
Hundreds of NGOs and thousands of individuals call on the EU Leaders Summit to say NO to biofuel targets
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“Full tanks at the cost of empty stomachs”
Declaration on the Lula-Bush biofuels agreement, signed by Comissio Pastoral da Terra (CPT), Grito dos Excluidos, Movimento Sem Terra (MST), Servico Pastoral dos Migrantes (SPM), Rede Social de Justica e Direitos Humanos, Via Campesina.
Biofuels for transport – a dangerous distraction
Article by Dr Andrew Boswell published by Scientists for Global Responsibility, January 2007.
10% biofuel targets a betrayal, say environmentalists and peoples’ organizations
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Expected CO2 emissions caused by producing South East Asian palm oil for biodiesel
An estimation compared with the avoided diesel emissions - based on the most recent science. Jim Roland Download
Open Letter: “We Call On the EU to Abandon Targets For Biofuel Use in Europe”
A letter from 250 organisations and key individuals to the EU Council. Now closed for signatures. Available in the following languages: English, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Portugues. Read the Signatories.
“Palm oil for biofuels increases social conflicts and undermines land reform in Indonesia”
Open Letter to the European Union by Sawit Watch, Indonesia.
‘Ecological Macbeth’ warning over new biofuel incentives
Ecological Macbeth' warning over new biofuel incentives Biofuelwatch, January 24th 2007 As George Bush announces an alternative fuels obligation of 35 billion gallons by 2017, campaigners warn of ecological catastrophe as central ecological goals are thrown to the...
The global blueprint for a biomass economy
Report by Almuth Ernsting.
EU Energy Strategy risks failing to stabilise the climate at the cost of exporting emissions to the global South
Joint Release with Large Scale Biofuels Action Group.