Cyberaction - Friends of the Earth Scotland

Contact your MEPs

This action should take you no more than 2 minutes.

Your email will be sent to the Scotland MEPs:

John Purvis (Conservative Party)
Alyn Smith (Scottish National Party)
Struan Stevenson (Conservative Party)
Catherine Stihler (Labour Party)
Elspeth Attwooll (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Ian Stewart Hudghton (Scottish National Party)
David Martin (Labour Party)

You can change the email subject if you want, to give variety to the emails your MEPs are receiving.
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	Dear [MEP name will be automatically added]
You can amend the content of the email if you want, to give variety to the emails your MEPs are receiving.
I am writing to ask you to vote against increased EU biofuel targets as proposed by the European Commission in the draft Directive on renewable energy. You may be aware of the overwhelming evidence published over the last few months that the large scale production of biofuels will - have devastating effects on the world's most important habitats - have disastrous consequences for the poorest people and - do little to tackle climate change. Despite this evidence the European Commission has held on to its proposal to include a 10% target for biofuels by 2020. The Commission proposes to avoid negative impacts from biofuels through the introduction of sustainability criteria. In reality sustainability criteria fail to solve problems like the pressure biofuel crops exert on other agricultural land uses, pushing them into rainforests and other habitats (a problem known as leakage). And there are not even attempts to address social issues like land rights conflicts and the effects on the world's food prices. If you feel you cannot vote against the target I would like to hear from you how you propose the problems of leakage and the social impacts of biofuels will be tackled.
	Yours sincerely
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