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Some rather better news to come out of Whitehall after this morning's damning NAO report. Environment secretary David Miliband confirmed in a parliamentary answer yesterday that his DEFRA department was "researching ways of calculating the embedded carbon in imported goods and assessing the international biodiversity impact of goods imported to the UK". Miliband also tackled the thorny issue of biofuels when asked how the Government was looking to ethically source them. He claimed that by changing the European common agriculture policy which insists on "set-aside" (where farmers are paid to leave land fallow) provides "potential for us to grow biofuels in this country in a way that does not compromise food or other environmental matters".
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