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  Biofuel Campaigns Website

  I have recently helped to set up a UK-based website which looks at biofuels, rainforests and bidiversity: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/  .

  Please have a look and send us any comments you might have!

  Although we support mandatory regulation of the biofuel market (mandatory, not the voluntary labelling which is all the EU have for the timber market), this does not mean that we support the present EU target for biofuels, in the absence of any evidence that it can be met sustainably.  

  One important point often lost in the discussion is that this is not about global warming v biodiversity loss from deforestation.  Where biofuels are grown at the expense of ancient forests, they are generally linked to much higher greenhouse gas emissions than the petrol or diesel they displace.On Biofuels are bad news for biodiversity posted 3 years, 5 months ago 13 Responses