Open Letter signed by 55 organisations from North to South.
Almuth
Groups from around the world call for a moratorium on EU incentives for biofuels from large-scale monocultures
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Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures
Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures
Environmentalists warn that EU biofuel proposals put rainforests, the climate and communities at risk
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EU consultation response
Response by Biofuelwatch.
South-East Asia’s peat fires and global warming
Report by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Download
Response of environmentalists to Malaysian and Indonesian Palm Oil PR initiative
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Open letter to MEPs
Open letter signed by 7 organisations.
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.