(UK) Biofuel-related Early Day Motions in new Parliament

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(UK) Please ask your MP to sign the following Early Day Motions:
 
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EDM 230   

WORLD HUNGER AND BIOFUELS

25.11.2009

Vis, Rudi

That this House notes that the number of hungry and malnourished people has passed the one billion mark, in part because of rising food prices; further notes the comment by Oliver De Schutter, UN rapporteur on the right to food, that the November 2009 UN Food Summit declaration text omits to mention the diversion of arable land to biofuels, being a major contributor to rising food prices; further notes that several major scientific analyses indicate that first world incentives for liquid biofuels from crops are having a net negative effect on the environment, and that there is no practical mechanism known to rectify this; further notes that medical research is not promoted by placing medicines believed to cause net harm on unlimited sale; therefore seeks a radical reform of EU bioenergy policy so as to put hunger-abatement and environmental objectives first; and urges the Government to place a moratorium on the awarding of Renewables Obligation Certificates to UK power station projects using liquid biofuels from crop sources, which are currently proliferating.

  http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39773&SESSION=903

Signatures( 13)

 

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EDM 232   

PALM OIL AND DEFORESTATION

25.11.2009

Vis, Rudi

That this House recognises the manifold value of rainforests; notes that palm oil requires a humid equatorial climate to be profitable, hence the current collision between the expansion of oil palm plantations and rainforests, their communities, carbon stores and endangered wildlife such as orangutans; further notes remarks by Friends of the Earth International that sustainability certification of palm oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is no solution as it does not halt deforestation, it does not halt the expansion of damaging oil palm plantations and it does not benefit local communities; further notes that with high oil prices, palm oil growth for bioenergy poses a grave threat to rainforests around the tropics; therefore urges the Government and world community to make it a priority to stop expansion of palm oil monocultures and other industrial-scale farming and agroforestry onto rainforest land, in particular by acting to control consumption of the respective commodities; and to achieve an effective, equitable agreement to curb the loss of natural forest and carbon sinks, in a manner that ensures justice for forest peoples.

Signatures( 18)

Also topical are:

 

EDM 70  LIVESTOCK SECTOR AND SUSTAINABILITY (Spink, Bob) 14 signatures

For reducing livestock impacts including of feed; concerned about sheer quantity of livestock in the world

 

EDM 194  DEFORESTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND LIVESTOCK (George, Andrew) 31 signatures

For reducing livestock impacts in particular looking at soy-based feed overseas

 

EDM 229  LIVESTOCK AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Challen, Colin) 6 signatures

Highlights World Watch "Livestock and climate change" report; calls for consideration of livestock emissions in government and Climate Change Committee policy, and support for vegetarianism.

 

 

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39775&SESSION=903

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