Adam’s Hypocrite of the Week

Adam was not going to award this gong this week, but then he came across this gem:-

Talk about having your oilcake and eating it. The European Commission wants to use a scandalous sleight of hand to justify felling tropical rainforests to make way for oil palm plantations that would produce biofuels.

A leaked document from the Commission to ministers and the European Parliament proposes getting round measures to limit the use of biofuels from deforested land by classifying dense plantations as “forests”, thus pretending that no destruction has taken place. “This means,” it says frankly, “that a change from forest to oil farm plantation would not per se constitute a breach of the [sustainability] criteria”.

Thus the EU, that bastion of protectionism, which presumes to lecture all and sundry on the climate change issue is revealed as a group of mendacious hypocrites.

Adam’s Hypocrite of the Week – The EU

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