Archive for June, 2011
June 22nd, 2011 | 
Author: What became clear in 2010 was that some challenges require long-term planning, continual attention, and persistent solutions. The two that come first to mind are Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) and the Food and Fuel competition debate. A third is the continued stream of misinformation in the press about both of those issues.
In fact, it is this issue of misinformation that seems to be more of the roadblock to progress than either ILUC or feedstock competition. It is such a significant issue, that the University of Essex published a scholarly article last summer in Sociological Research Online examining the influence these anti-biofuels NGOs have had on the biofuels debate in Europe: “We found that in many cases the development of NGO policy has been driven more by narrow political opportunities for influence than by broader and more coherent policy responses to global climate change or economic development, or indeed rigorous assessment of the scientific evidence.”
With the millions of euros behind these NGOs and their anti-biofuels agenda—some of those millions coming directly from the European Commission’s fund for environmental NGOs budgets—the question becomes how can a growing, young organisation like PANGEA ever hope to get sensible policy in Europe let alone develop a market for Africa’s sustainable biofuel exports?
The answer: With continued support from our members and partners, that’s how.
Now, more than ever, it is up to us to get the real data to the public. How food and fuel co-production, how ILUC isn’t a factor in Africa, and how unsustainably produced biofuels in other parts of the world, from rainforest destruction to landgrabbing, has absolutely nothing to do with the African experience—let alone the future of bioenergy in Africa. PANGEA voiced its concerns at every Brussels-based event held in 2010 on these issues. We also were in attendance at several events further afield like an event on landgrabbing in Cameroon and one on food and fuel co-production in Ghana. We received top billing in the global sugar and ethanol industry’s leading market report, FO Licht, explaining the difference between ILUC in Africa and ILUC everywhere else. We won’t stop there.
Just as we learned in 2010 that these issues aren’t going away quickly or easily, we learned that we couldn’t afford to be silent. We need more data, more research, more studies and we will produce more reports, more Tweets, and more policy papers. Our members—present and future—depend on it.
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