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Warning to biofuel producers to give up sugar

By Fiona Harvey and Ed Crooks

Published: June 18 2007 22:48 | Last updated: June 18 2007 22:48

Turning grains and sugar cane into fuel is not the answer to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from transport, one of the most influential economic experts on climate change has said.

Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a landmark report on the economics of climate change last year and adviser to the UK government, told the Financial Times: “I don’t believe that sugar and corn could possibly carry the weight of transport.”

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