On Thursday the British government is expected to publish the Gallagher report, a review of biofuels named for Ed Gallagher of Britain’s Renewable Fuels Agency who prepared it.
The report will raise questions about targets adopted in the European Union and elsewhere that are meant to expand use of the fuels over the next few years. The report is expected to be one of the most damning yet on the subject, and could force EU governments to revise a 10 percent target for the fuels.
In anticipation of the announcement, the aid group Oxfam issued its own report on Wednesday titled “Another Inconvenient Truth.” It calculates that rich country biofuel policies had contributed up to 30 percent to the global rise in food prices and dragged more than 30 million people into poverty.
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