News / Green groups in Euro parliament protest against growing food for fuel

NGOs Oxfam, Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Transport & Environment are demonstrating outside the European Parliament in Brussels tomorrow against the use of virgin crops to make biofuel.

Europe devotes large tracts of land to the production of biofuel, which despite the name, is not thought to be carbon-neutral, thanks to the CO2-intensive agricultural processes required.

“Burning food in cars is a terrible idea: it means millions of hectares of additional intensive agriculture and it fuels the food crisis, the climate crisis and the ...