Tim Yeo MP, Chairman of the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee and former Shadow Minister of Agriculture, writes about limitation of current policies on biofuels.
Earlier this year the Environmental Audit Committee looked at biofuels, to try to untangle conflicting reports about their usefulness in lowering greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, and to investigate concerns that their production might cause environmental damage.
We found that although certain biofuels, such as bioethanol, can indeed help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, many could have serious environmental impacts and might even lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions overall.
