布朗催促G8對食物缺乏的行動
星期四， 2008年4月10日Gordon Brown昨天提出了對biofuels的衝擊的新詢問，因為他在世界議程在食物缺乏投入了上升的食物價格通過給傢伙G8領導準備一個國際包裹的寫。
他在日本要問題在G8山頂的議程中在7月，并且說他有對倉促往環境可疑的biofuels也許偏移大量需求的食物生產的方式的關心。
當他遇見他們在華盛頓和紐約下個星期時，他也可能與美國領導談論問題。 他要IMF和世界銀行今年參與關於問題。 美國接受更加熱心的方法對biofuels作為應付氣候變化方式。
在給首相的一封信件， Yasuo福田，開始計劃演講糧食危機，布朗寫： 「有我們迫切需要審查對biofuels不同的種類和生產方法的食物價格的衝擊的增長的公眾輿論，并且保證他們的用途是負責任和能承受的」。
當運輸秘書，露絲凱利，在2月，委任了回顧入他們的衝擊英國介紹補貼為biofuels，但承認了環境保護者關心。
在歐共體水平，布朗反對在biofuel目標的增量，表達他的關心在他們的衝擊對砍伐森林，珍貴的棲所和對食物安全。 從布朗的在星期二信件，今天釋放，被聯合國的高級人道主義官員，約翰・ Holmes先生跟隨一次警告，食物價格可能激發全世界不安和威脅政治穩定。
布朗的關心一部分源於他的首要科學顧問提的建議，約翰Beddington，糧食危機的作用比氣候變化迅速將咬住。 食物價格有上升的57%在一年，根據聯合國的食物和agriculure組織。 米的價格加倍，提示的國家減慢出口。 價格上升在國家歸因於成長的速度例如中國。
世界銀行報告昨天聲稱biofuel消耗量幫助了推擠全球性食物價格83%在過去三年和駕駛通貨膨脹并且勞損發展中的經濟入下十年。
在他的信件布朗說： “Rising food prices threaten to roll back progress we have made in recent years on development. For the first time in decades, the number of people facing hunger is growing.” He called for a redoubling of “our efforts for a WTO trade deal that provides greater poor country access to developed country markets”. “Market incentives” would close the gap between world cereal supply and demand in the longer term.
Proposing “social safety nets for the poorest”, he said: “We may need to increase … the scale of our support for humanitarian programmes.”
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