Letter

‘Biofuels not a way to decarbonise aviation’

January 24, 2017

In a letter to the Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, five green and development organisations – Birdlife, Friends of the Earth, Fern, Oxfam, and T&E – ask the Commissioner to reconsider her position about aviation biofuels. The organisations also make some recommendations on how to start decarbonising the sector.

In a letter to the Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, five green and development organisations – Birdlife, Friends of the Earth, Fern, Oxfam, and T&E – ask the Commissioner to reconsider her position about aviation biofuels. The organisations also make some recommendations on how to start decarbonising the sector.

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