Norwich Protesters target Tesco - UKs market leader in biofuels

A colourful banner protest organised by a coalition of local Norwich branches of the environmental groups Friends of the Earth, Rising Tide and Campaign against Climate Change was held outside the Tesco Metro, Guildhall Hill in central Norwich. Lunchtime shoopers were leaflet and warned about Tesco's greenwash on biofuels.

This is part of a National Week of Action on Agrofuels in which different groups and organisations across the UK are organising protests against the deforestation, high food prices, human rights abuses and faster global warming caused by biofuels from large-scale monocultures.

Tesco is the UK’s largest supermarket retailer of such agro-biofuels and Tesco have a 25% stake in the UK’s largest biofuel supplier, Greenergy Fuels. Tesco say that Greenergy buys rapeseed for biodiesel from UK farmers. They make no reference to bioethanol and other biodiesel sources palm and soya from the tropics. Greenergy freely admit that they also use sugar cane (for bioethanol), soy and palm oil.

Mark Crutchley of Norwich and Norfolk Campaign against Climate Change (N2C3), one of the organisers of this protest, says: “Across the tropics, tens of millions of hectares are being converted to vast monocultures to grow fuel for our cars. This is a disaster for communities, for forests and for the global climate. “

Over 200 organisations from North and South have called for an EU moratorium on agrofuels from large-scale monocultures, and there have been many similar calls, including from a large number of civil society organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Right of Food has described current biofuel production ‘a crime against humanity’ and demands a 5 year moratorium. The UK Parliament’s Enviornmental Audit Committee also supports a moratorium on biofuel targets and warns that current ‘sustainability standards’ will not prevent serious negative impacts from biofuels. Friends of the Earth Europe also call for a moratorium of on EU biofuel targets and subsidies.

In the UK, mandatory blending of petrol and diesel with 2.5% biofuels will be introduced on 15th April, under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. Tesco boast that they use twice this percentage at over 300 petrol stations. Tesco market, increased use of biofuels as a ‘green choice’.

Jenn Parkhouse from Norwich Friends of the Earth states: “From April, people will have no choice but to contribute to the destruction of forests, the eviction of small farmers and rising food prices which will mean more hunger. More and more people now realise the need for a strong movement to stop the destruction caused by the biofuel industry and the legislation which encourages it.”

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