Agrofuels and oil palm plantations

The promotion of agrofuels as a form of renewable energy is proving to be one of the European Union’s biggest policy mistakes.

EU agrofuels policies are aggravating climate change. They have become a key driver of forest and biodiversity loss, land-grabs and conflicts, and human rights abuses in producer countries such as Indonesia. Increasingly, agricultural land needed to produce food is being reallocated to grow crops for agrofuels to fuel cars rather than to feed hungry people. [more]

DTE video, 11th September 2013

Nur Hidayati from WALHI and Bondan Andriyanu from Sawit Watch interviewed by DTE at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

CSOs hand over petitions with 243,998 signatures to key MEPs, including Corrine Lepage, in Strasbourg, September 11th