Letter to Ruth Kelly regarding biofuels and the RTFO

A coalition of some of Britain's biggest environmental and development groups has warned the Government that its biofuel policy risks doing more harm than good in the fight against climate change and global poverty. The organisations are demanding that ministers delay the introduction of legislation which would see biofuels pumped into every tank in the country from April 15th 2008. 

In a letter to Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, the groups - Oxfam, CAFOD, RSPB, IIED, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, One World and Operation Noah - criticise the upcoming Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) and assert that "there is a very real risk that the RTFO will make climate change worse, not better."

Letter to Ruth Kelly

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