Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures

The undersigned call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels and agroenergy from large-scale monocultures including tree plantations and a moratorium on EU imports of such agrofuels. This includes the immediate suspension of all targets, incentives such as tax breaks and subsidies which benefit agrofuels from large-scale monocultures, including financing through carbon trading mechanisms, international development aid or loans from international finance organisations such as the World Bank. This call also responds to the growing number of calls from the global south against agrofuel monoculturesi, which EU targets are helping to promote.

Organisations calling for the moratorium include:

AG Kleinstlandwirtschaft, Germany

Agrecol e.V. (Verein zur Förderung der standortgerechten Landnutzung / Association for AgriCulture and Ecology), Germany

All Nepal Peasants' Federation, Nepal

Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union –APVVU, India

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regenwald und Artenschutz, (Working Group on Rainforests and Biodiversity), Germany

Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz - Kolumbien (ASK) - Grupo de Trabajo Suiza Colombia (Swiss Working Group on Colombia), Switzerland

Arbeitskreis Heckenschutz im Landkreis Lüchow Dannenberg, Germany

Área Agroecología y Soberanía Alimentaria de Ecologistas en Acción, Spain

Asamblea Coordinadora Patagónica contra el Saqueo y la Contaminación, Patagonia

Asociación Paz con Dignidad, Spain

Asociación Pola Defensa da Ría (APDR), Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

ASW - Aktionsgemeinschaft Solidarische Welt e.V. (Ação Mundo Solidário), Germany

Attac-Gruppe Wendland, Germany

Base Investigaciones Sociales, Paraguay

Berne Declaration, Switzerland

BI „Kein Strom aus Palmöl!“, Germany

Biofuelwatch, UK

Botanischer Verein zu Hamburg e.V., Germany

Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) - Association for the peoples of the rainforest, Switzerland

Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale, Italy

Campaña ¿Quién debe a quién?, Spain

Campo Limpo, Solidarität mit Brasilien e.V., Germany

CAPPA, Indonesia

Carbon Trade Watch, Netherlands

CECOEDECON, India

Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), Mongolia

Climate Change Action Network, Australia

Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), UK

COECOCEIBA - Amigos de la Tierra, Costa Rica

Colombia Solidarity Campaign (UK)

Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, Colombia

Consejo Comunitario del Curvaradó, Colombia

Consejo Comunitario del Jiguamiandó, Colombia

Coordinación de ONG y Cooperativas (CONGCOOP), Guatemala

Corner House, UK

Corporate Europe Observatory, Netherlands

Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre, Germany

Deccan Development Society (DDS), India

DEEPWAVE. e.V., Germany

Dogwood Alliance, US

Down to Earth: the international campaign for ecological justice in Indonesia, UK

Dritte-Welt-Kreis Panama e.V., Germany

EarthLink - The People & Nature Network, Germany

Eco Sitio, Argentina

Ecological Internet, US

Ecological Society of the Philippines, Philippines

EcoNexus, UK

Ecoropa, EU

En Buenas Manos e.V., Germany

European Yoga Network, EU

Familias de los Consejos Comunitarios del Cacarica de Autodeterminación, Vida, Dignidad del Cacarica-CAVIDA, Colombia

FASE/ES - Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional - Espírito Santo, Brasil

FDCL - Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Chile-Lateinamerika (Centro de Investigación y Documentación Chile-América Latina), Germany

FERN, UK

Focus on the Global South, Thailand

Food, Trade and Nutrition Coalition-Asia (FTN), Asia

Förderkreis Terra Nova Mondai e.V., Germany

Forest Friends, Ireland/Ghana

Forum Ökologie & Papier, Germany

Gäa e.V. - Vereinigung ökologischer Landbau, Germany

Geasphere, South Africa

Global Justice Ecology Project, US

GM Freeze, UK

GRAIN, international

GREEN - Grupo de Recuperación y Estudio de Espacios Naturales, Asturias, Spain

Grupo Reflexion Rural, Argentina

Heike Pfreundtner, 1st associate SATU e.V., Germany

IBON Foundation, Philippines

Instituto de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Switzerland

KoBra - Kooperation Brasilien e.V., Germany

kolko - Menschenrechte für Kolumbien (kolko - human rights for Colombia), Germany

Kolumbiengruppe e.V. - Grupo Colombia, Alemania - Colombian Group, Germany

La Coordinadora de Intergración de Organizaciones Económicas Campesinas de Bolivia (CIOEC- Bolivia)

La Sociedad Ecologica Regional Alto Valle, Gral Roca, Rio Negro, Argentina

Life of the Land, Hawaii, US

Loro Parque Fundación, Spain

Mesa Global, Guatemala

Miljöförbundet Jordens Vänner (Friends of the Earth), Sweden

Munlochy Vigil, Scotland

NABU Landesverband Saarland, Germany

Namibian Branch of Earthlife Africa

National Agricultural Forum, India

National Society of Conservationists, Hungary (FoE Hungary)

NOAH: Friends of the Earth, Denmark

Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización, Catalonia, Spain

OEBV- Via Campesina, Austria

Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis "Christen & Ökologie", Germany

PanEco Foundation. Switzerland

Periódico INTAG, Otavalo, Imbabura, Ecuador

Pesticide Action Network (PAN), UK

Pesticide Action Network, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Pesticide Action Network, Asia and the Pacific, Asia

Pestizid Aktions-Netzwerk e.V. (PAN Germany)

Pro REGENWALD, Germany

ProAnimalia International, Holland

Quaker Concern for Animals, UK

Rainforest Information Centre, Australia

Red de Semillas "Resembrando e Intercambiando" of Spain.

Red-Green Alliance, Denmark

Repüln - FM La Casa Radio Comunitaria, Argentina

Rettet den Regenwald, Germany

Robin Wood, Germany

Sahabat Alam Malaysia - Friends of the Earth, Malaysia

Sawit Watch,

SETARA Jambi/YKR, Sumatera, Indonesia

Sociedad Colombiana de Automovilistas

Society for Threatened Peoples, Asia Desk, Germany

Soldepaz Pachakuti

Solifunds, Switzerland

SOS Save our Seeds and campaign against GMOs, South Germany.

South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, Durban South Africa

Stiftung Artenschutz (Species Conservation Foundation), Germany

Taller Ecologista Chacabuco Sustentable, Argentina

terre des homes, Germany

The Altropico Foundation of Ecuador, Ecuador

The Borneo Project, US

The Clean Air Action Group, Hungary

The Climate Alliance of European Cities with indigenous Rainforest Peoples, EU

The Gaia Foundation, UK

The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP), Germany

Transnational Institute, Netherlands

Veterinarios sin Fronteras, Spain

Via Campesina Centro Americana, Honduras

Vogelschutz-Komitee e.V., (Bird Protection Committee), Germany

Vogelschutz-Komitee, (Bird Protection Committee), Luxemburg

WALHI/Friends of the Earth, Indonesia

Watch Indonesia!

Westfälische Gesellschaft für Artenschutz (Westphalian Society for Conservation), Germany

Women and Life on Earth e.V., Germany

World Rainforest Movement, international

Zoologische Gesellschaft f. Arten- und Populationsschutz e.V., Germany

 

Individuals calling for the moratorium include:

Klaus Schenck, Ecuador

Antje Lorch, Netherlands

Almute Heider, Germany

Gerhard and Petra Schwarztrauber, Germany

Herwig Zahorka, Germany

Gordon Wilson, Scotland, UK

Miriam Lutz, Germany

Guy Wallbanks, UK

Chris van den Bos, UK

Torry Kuswardono, Indonesia

Alain Olvera Baena, Spain

E.Joel Wright, Canada

Caroline Reimann, Germany

Luis González Creus, Spain

Dr I. Phillips, UK

John Crocker, Wales, UK

Kevin Anderson, UK

Linda Shewan, Australia

Ina Vandenberge, Belgium

Teresa Seed, UK

A.E. van Wyk, South Africa

Louis de Villiers, South Africa

Karmele Llano Sanchez, Spain

Zelimir Bajzec, Sweden

Debbie Bryce, UK

Thomas Erbe, Germany

Valerie Tomlinson, Cornwall, UK

Louise Field, UK

Hans U. Waechter, India

Doug Holly, UK

Duncan Law, UK

Fabien Cohen, France

Elisabeth Alington, New Zealand

Keith Forrester-Paton, UK

Norma Duncan, Scotland, UK

Javier Pardos, Spain

Martin Haggerty, UK

Madeleine Parkyn, UK

John Blair-Fish, Scotland, UK

Maite Onco Barella, Spain

Alain Olvera Baena, Spain

David Dewhurst, UK

Jorge Hidalgo Palacios, Ecuador

Claudio A. Alloatti, Santa Fe, Argentina

Andrea Markos, Italy

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