EU’s biofuels target could be amended amid concerns

The European Union’s ambitious target on using biofuels in cars could be amended in the face of concerns over rising food prices, the EU’s Slovenian presidency said Thursday.

“There will be more analysis but we don’t have any clear answers,” Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa told a press conference after the first day of an EU summit in Brussels.
Last week the UN agency in charge of alleviating world hunger warned the European Union that the fast-growing use of biofuels is driving up food prices for the world’s poor.

“The shift to biofuels production has diverted lands out of the food chain,” World Food Programme executive director Josette Sheeran told lawmakers at the European Parliament in Brussels.

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