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07 January 2011: CRESI research on transitions to biofuels cause a stir
In their recently published paper Sarah Pilgrim and Mark Harvey report a series of interviews with staff at a number of NGOs (Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, RSPB, Friends of the Earth) and suggests that in many cases the development of NGO policy has been driven more by narrow political opportunities for influence than by broader and more coherent policy responses to global climate change or economic development, or indeed rigorous assessment of the scientific evidence.
The full paper is available online as Pilgrim, S and Harvey, M, (2010) Battles over Biofuels in Europe: NGOs and the Politics of Markets. Sociological Research Online, 15 (3) 4 whilst other CRESI research on biofuels can be found on the CRESI website.
Understandably this work has caused quite a stir in the biofuels sector trade media: