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New report on the impact of biofuels and EU renewable energy policy

Publish date: November 15, 2009

Written by: Veronica Webster

BRUSSELS – The Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment has launched a report on biofuels following the adoption, at the end of 2008, of the European Union’s mandatory 10 percent renewable energy target for transport, to be reached by 2020.

The report assesses the environmental implications of this policy and the reasons why meeting the 10 percent target solely through biofuel use is unsustainable. The report discusses how current policy could be redefined to promote a use of biofuels that does not “cause more harm than good.”

It is jointly published by BirdLife, EEB, Fern, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam.

Read the full report here.

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