Using industrial biofuels means putting poor people’s food into rich people’s cars – this is lunacy in a world where one billion people are hungry.

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EU consumption of industrial biofuels is set to jump four-fold and up to two-thirds of these biofuels are likely to be imported, the majority from developing countries. 

ActionAid has estimated that these policies could push 600 million extra people into hunger by 2020; making them one of the main barriers to people getting the food they need.

The climate cost

And if that wasn’t catastrophic enough, there is also strong scientific evidence that industrial biofuels will be even worse for the climate than the fossil fuels they were designed to replace.

We know there are real solutions to the climate and energy crises; simple solutions like:

• better funding for public transport
• increasing the fuel efficiency of engines
• investing in cleaner alternatives to petrol like electric vehicles.

But governments are ignoring these to promote industrial biofuels, a dangerous distraction that will exacerbate both hunger and climate change.

It is the poor, and in particular women, who will suffer most as industrial biofuel use increases. 

ActionAid are campaigning alongside people in developing countries who are calling for action to be taken on industrial biofuel production.