UK: Call to abandon biofuels targets

The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.

The Environmental Audit Committee says biofuels are ineffective at cutting greenhouse gases and can be expensive.
The Environmental Audit Committee says the UK government and the EU have been “misguided” in prioritising biofuel for road transport when it is much more efficient under current technology to use biofuels for heating and cooling.

The committee notes that last week BBC News published an admission by the EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas that the EU had not foreseen all the problems entailed in biofuels.

The MPs say this proves the need for a moratorium on the target until it is proved that biofuels can be produced sustainably.

BBC