Last week we launched our new report ‘Fuel for thought’ at a panel debate at the Centre in Brussels. More than 100 people came to the event, including Members of the European...
As the European Commission is given an opportunity to revise the EU’s biofuels targets in 2012, a new ActionAid report reveals that the EU continues to ignore that its biofuels policies are driving up global food prices and pushing people in poor countries off their land.
ActionAid welcomes the initiative announced by the European Commission today to increase development aid to promote access to sustainable, renewable energy for the poorest and most excluded people in the world, particularly women.
In recent years, communities supported by ActionAid and its partners from around the world have suffered the negative impacts of industrial biofuels production projects and policies. While ActionAid...
Motorists across Europe are set to pay an additional €18 billion a year for petrol and diesel as a result of EU biofuel targets that have been shown not to reduce emissions, says new research published today.
No matter where you go to check the news, you’re probably used by now to hearing all about the financial crisis. Governments across Europe are slashing their budgets and we’re told the age of...
Biofuels have been put forward as a way to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change. ActionAid believes they will not serve as the solution to either of these challenges.
With continued instability on the financial markets dominating the 2011 G20 leader’s summit, it should come as little surprise that other important issues have been swept aside. One of these is the...
