Tuesday 15th April has been dubbed 'Biofools Day'. Today is the first day of the Government’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) - the controversial policy that sets a mandatory target to ensure that 2.5% of fuel used in transport derives from agrofuels. The social and environmental impacts of mass agrofuels have not been taken into account and this will lead to more problems than it seeks to solve - see photo above of palm oil plantation created by destroying the rainforest.
I give a huge welcome to the actions by Biofuelwatch and Campaign Against Climate Change, that will take place around the country (including in Gloucestershire) to highlight the absurdity of this new mandatory target - and because it is in all fuels we can't even choose not to have it. See lots more in my news release from yesterday here:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2081/2/
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