Efforts by the European Union to combat climate change threaten to cause higher food prices and suffering in poorer countries unless proposed safeguards are toughened, green campaigners have warned.
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s plan to boost biofuel and renewable energy use shows it would “fail to protect the poor or the environment” from the diversion of crops from food to fuel, Friends of the Earth said on Friday.
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