Just days before new legislation in the UK mandating their use, there is yet more trouble for biofuels.
Professor Bob Watson, one of the British government’s top chief scientific advisers has said it would be wrong to introduce compulsory quotas for the use of biofuels in petrol and diesel before their effects had been properly assessed.

The world’s first commercial aircraft powered partly by biofuel took off from Heathrow yesterday to a storm of criticism from climate change experts, who insisted it was nothing more than Sir Richard Branson’s latest “nonsensical” publicity stunt.
The Virgin Atlantic 747 flew from London to Amsterdam using a 20 per cent biofuel mix of coconut and […]

Why does the UN continue to take Richard Branson seriously when it comes to climate change?
Here is a man whose fleet of airplanes continues to promote transanatlantic travel, who is investing in space tourism for the super rich at the same time as promoting biofuels as the solution to climate change, which will just make […]

More bad news for biofuels. Transforming ecosystems into farms for biofuel crops will increase global warming and result in net increases in carbon emissions, according to a new study.
Scientists have found that converting rainforests, peatlands and grasslands can outweigh the carbon savings made from biofuels and produce “carbon debts” which could take centuries to pay […]

Every week there seems to be a new report on the potential downsides of biofuels.
This week it is the turn of British MPs. UK and European governments should not have pursued targets to increase the use of biofuels without putting in place “robust” measures to prevent environmental damage, the MPs are warning.