The Catholic Church of Luxembourg joined the campaign supported by another 18 organisations of the “Agrokraftstoffe” ("crop-derived fuels") platform to protest against the use of crops in order to produce energy. The campaign consists in a letter of protest that was sent a few days ago to the Government of Luxembourg to express disapproval for the EU Commission’s proposal to rise the amount of crop-derived fuels by 10% before 2020 to cater to the energy requirements of the transport industry. This measure, write the organisations, "will destroy food security for millions of people, without doing anything to protect climate. This goal cannot be achieved on sustainable conditions". This 10% goal cannot be achieved by European agriculture, which does not have the required tillable land. (continued)
