Peter Cotgreave

Peter Cotgreave is director of public affairs at the Royal Society.

On the Spiked website of 2005 he is described as director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE). However, he is not listed as a director of the CaSE as at November 2012.

Affiliations

• Campaign for Science and Engineering
• Royal Society
• Save British Science

Views

On biofuels: Cotgreave wrote in an article for The Guardian that he opposed a moratorium on biofuels because "there are examples of 'good' biofuels that can play an immediate part in tackling climate change."

He downplayed reports that biofuels have contributed to the food crisis, arguing, "Biofuels may have played a part in rising food prices but, as the story also mentioned, estimates of the price increase caused by biofuels vary from 3% to 75%."

On biofuels targets, he wrote, "The UK and EU should not scrap biofuels targets but seek to ensure that these are met through the use of sustainable crops that do not take food from people's mouths."

On genetically modified (GM) crops: Cotgreave backed a report that he claimed concluded that "GM foods are unlikely to be a great risk to health". But Pete Riley, then GM campaigner for Friends of the Earth, had a very different interpretation of the same report: "Far from giving GM crops the green light, this report admits that there are gaps in our scientific knowledge and significant uncertainties about the long-term impacts of GM food and crops on our health and environment."

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