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"The need to further reduce carbon emissions, and curb the harmful effects of land use change arising from the cultivation of crops for fuel, prompted us to change the current EU policy. Our biofuels policy was badly outdated and broken. The human and environmental side effects of this route are increasingly apparent and we had to do something to address this. Land and food price speculation are exacerbated in the process.
EU governments at Council level have shown an abysmal lack of willingness to think in our long-term interest and decided to concede as little room for reform as possible. We now have a 7% cap on the use of ‘old-school’, land-intensive biofuels, even if, like many colleagues involved in this issue, I wanted a much stricter cap on the share of conventional biofuels in the overall mix, preferably at 5%. We also pushed for sounder definitions and hierarchies of what qualifies as waste as source materials for more advanced biofuels exploiting by-products of other agricultural activities.
There is also progress on the recognition of the land rights of indigenous people, a critical overseas development and human rights aspect our policies in this area must not ignore."@en1
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