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Thu 10 November 2005 View all news
The European Conference on Climate Change Biodiversity has concluded that a rush to meet the EU target of using 5.75% biofuels for transport by 2010 could damage wildlife.
Delegates at the conference, organised by English Nature, heard that crops like oil seed rape, elephant grass and coppiced willow are beginning to be grown on a large scale to make biodiesel for vehicles and as a feedstock for power stations.
According to The Guardian, experts also concluded that there was not enough land to achieve the biofuels target without converting producting farmland to energy crops. The final report of the conference said: "You can either feed humans or cars but not both."
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