Letter

Open letter to decision makers calling for the EU biofuels policy to be fixed

June 19, 2013

T&E, as well over 100 other organisations signed up to an open letter to EU decision makers on EU biofuels policy.

Urgent action is needed to halt the expansion of land-based biofuels (i.e. biofuels, or agrofuels, made from food crops or dedicated energy crops) which bring few or no climate benefits while putting extra pressure on scarce land resources, especially for food and feed.

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