Wed 8 March 2006,12.30 to 2.00pm

In collaboration with Oxfam, the FPC is pleased to launch its latest pamphlet, Bio-Energy and CAP Reform: The Gains to Europe and Africa. The pamphlet argues that British politicians need to look seriously at how farm-produced energy can contribute not only to energy security, but also to meeting Britain's climate change targets and assisting rural development.

The seminar will explore the important spin-offs from increased British and European production of biomass energy:

The capacity to support the energy needs of developing countries

The potential to reduce dangerous emissions

Reduction of the burdens on developing economies imposed by high oil prices.

Speakers will include:

Stephen Twigg

Director, The Foreign Policy Centre

Dan Plesch

Senior Associate, Senior Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, Research Associate at SOAS, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University

Elizabeth Stuart

Trade Policy Advisor, Oxfam

Graham Meeks

Head of Fuels and Heat, Renewable Energy Association

The venue will be Wilson Room, Portcullis House, Westminster, SW1A 0AA.

For more information, contact Sam Vincent: china@fpc.org.uk or +44 207 388 6662.

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