Brown calls for moratorium on biofuels

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G8 summit in Japan could signal European halt to first-generation cereal-based biofuel plans

UK prime minister Gordon Brown is calling for a moratorium on cereal-based biofuels at the opening of the G8 summit in Japan today. The move will bring him into direct conflict with the US, where subsidised...

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