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·7/8/2008 - UK biofuel 'not up to standard', Guardian
·30/6/2008 - Human rights, rare species on EU biofuels agenda, Reuters
·3/6/2008 - Food Price "Catastrophe" Feared On Eve Of Summit, Reutes
·29/5/2008 - Amnesty Condemns Forced Cane Labour In Brazil, Reuters
·18/5/2008 - Was Malthus just off a few decades?, Barre Montpelier Times Argus
·1/5/2008 - Biofuels in Burma, Bangkok Post
·22/4/2008 - Rising food prices 'a silent tsunami', Telegraph
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- 1. Biofuel Human Rights News, Links and Information from Forests... Rank: 74%
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- 2. Human rights, rare species on EU biofuels agenda Rank: 72%
- Tuesday hands the EU's presidency to France. Last week, aid agency Oxfam said the knock-on effects of biofuels were pushing 30 million people worldwide into poverty. And this week, a long-awaited report in Britain will advise the government on other unwanted side effects. Aid agencies say EU targets encourage the exploitation of workers in biofuel exporting countries, pointing to tough conditions...
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- 3. EU fuelling human rights disaster in Indonesia Rank: 71%
- Holland and Switzerland combined. Serge Marti from LifeMosaic, author of Losing Ground, said: 'The European Commission is proposing sustainability criteria for biofuels but they do not include any attempts to address the social impacts of biofuel production. This means that the EU's increased biofuel use will lead to more of the types of problems exposed in Losing Ground as more land is converted...
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- 4. Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation... Rank: 70%
- Losing Ground The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia A report by Friends of the Earth, LifeMosaic and Sawit Watch February 2008 Losing Ground,...
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- 5. UK biofuel 'not up to standard' Rank: 70%
- Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. The figures show that biofuel accounted for 2.14% of UK road fuel for the first month of the scheme, against a target for the year of 2.5%. Most (86%) was biodiesel, with just 14% bioethanol. Scientists and campaigners have warned that biofuels could cause more problems than they solve, with concerns over...
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- The EU must play its part by abandoning its 10 per cent target for biofuels." Serge Marti, LifeMosaic - Author of Losing Ground "Oil palm companies have already taken over 7.3 million hectares of land for plantations, resulting in 513 ongoing conflicts between companies and communities. Given the negative social and environmental impacts of oil palm, Sawit Watch demands reform of the Indonesian...
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