EU 'Biofuel'

14.01.2008 BBC Turkish

For the last year, the use rate of biofuels in transportation was decided to be removed from 10 percent until 2020.

[[T]]The reports prepared since that day were almost no reduction in carbon emissions of some biofuels, a part of which can lead to the destruction of rainforest or the rise of food prices. [

Stavros Dimas, a member of the EU Commission, who accepted these problems in the interview given to

BBC, stated that the European Union will publish a new charter to secure the target from only sustainable breed to biofuels.

Dimas said "We must have our sustainability criteria in terms of both social and environmental factors."

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Dimas continued as follows: "There are concerns about the destruction of fat forests, the increase of food prices. We’ve seen Mexico sample, there’s almost a strain. In our countries, meat prices have increased.

Increased the use of corn in the production of biofuels in Mexico, led to the rise of the price of the basic food substances in the country, which brought together a team protests. [

In 2007, serious increase in grain prices across the world in 2007, where the use of iodine began to be widespread.

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