Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party), on Tuesday, 9 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 52 members in total.

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BIOFUEL TARGETS AND THE UK NATIONAL ACTION PLAN

That this House has grave concerns over the direction of the UK's current policy on biofuels; notes that there are substantial negative impacts on hunger and on climate change of the current policy of investment in large-scale industrial biofuels; further notes that in 2008 industrial biofuels pushed 30 million people into hunger and put an additional 260 million people at risk of hunger according to figures calculated by ActionAid; calls attention to the fact that biofuels distract from real solutions to climate change; urges the Government to develop legislation, taxation policy and other measures that limit energy demand in the transport sector; supports non-biofuel renewable energy sources in transport, including electric cars using electricity from truly renewable sources; and further urges the Government not to incentivise further increases in the use of biofuels through targets or subsidies in the National Action Plan to be submitted to the EU in June 2010.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 5 amendments.

828A1

leave out `grave'.

828A2

leave out `substantial'.

828A3

leave out from `ActionAid;' to `; urges' in line 7.

828A4

leave out `not' and insert `only'.

828A5

after `of' insert `sustainable'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

828 

828A1 

828A2 

828A3 

828A4 

828A5 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

John Austin

Peter Bottomley

Bob Spink

Martin Caton

Andrew Pelling

Subjects

Renewable energy

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk