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·18/6/2009 - Poet prepares for second-gen biofuel push, Business Green
·7/5/2009 - Snow Cover Turning to Lakes in the Himalayas, Inter Press Service
·20/4/2009 - California takes on King Corn, Daily Climate
·19/4/2009 - Global warming, thirsty energy: 7 dimensional chess, Various
·8/3/2009 - Corn Ethanol Industry Attacks California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, ClimateBiz
·5/3/2009 - United Kingdom: Bioplastics firm touts energy saving potential of plant-based packaging, Business Green
·14/11/2008 - First commercial biofuel flight cleared for take off next month, Business Green
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·Problem with Palm Oil, The - Rainforest Agribusiness
·Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests
·Deforestation in the Amazon 2004
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- 1. Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation Rank: 74%
- Spurring Deforestation Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment. The irony here is that the growing eagerness to slow climate change by using biofuels and planting millions of trees for carbon credits has resulted in new major causes of deforestation, say activists. And that is making climate change worse because deforestation puts far...
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- 2. U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon Rank: 72%
- SHARE: | | U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com January 17, 2008 U.S. incentives for biofuel production are promoting deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon by driving up crop prices and displacing energy feedstock production, say researchers. William Laurance, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, says that massive subsidies to promote American corn production for ethanol have shifted soy...
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- 3. Biofuels can lead to deforestation says Unilever executive Rank: 72%
- Biofuels can lead to deforestation says Unilever executive mongabay.com August 11, 2006 While biofuels are hyped for their potential to off-set fossil fuel use, the shift toward their use should proceed with caution warns Alan Jope, vice president of consumer products giant Unilever. In an August 7 interview with The Times, Jope said that the environmental drawbacks of biofuels is overlooked. Amazon: giving way to biofuels? "Superficially, it looks politically altruistic for a politician to say...
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- 4. Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana Rank: 72%
- SHARE: | | Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana mongabay.com February 15, 2007 Growing timber exports and rising interest in biofuels are raising concerns that deforestation could accelerate in the South American country of Guyana. Guyana is a small, lightly populated country on the north coast of South America. About three-quarters of Guyana is forested, roughly 60 percent of which is classified as primary forest. Guyana's forests are highly diverse: the country has some 1,263...
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- 5. U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon Rank: 72%
- SHARE: | | U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com January 17, 2008 U.S. incentives for biofuel production are promoting deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon by driving up crop prices and displacing energy feedstock production, say researchers. William Laurance, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, says that massive subsidies to promote American corn production for ethanol have shifted soy...
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- 6. De-linking NGOs Concerns Over Deforestation and Palm Oil Rank: 71%
- Home About My Papers Palm Oil Videos Archives Environment Sustainability Nutrition Subscribe Palm Oil Blog - Getting the Facts Right by Tan Sri Datuk Dr Yusof Basiron, CEO of Malaysian Palm Oil Council De-linking NGOs Concerns Over Deforestation and Palm Oil by Dr Yusof Basiron on April 24, 2009 1. A few years ago when oils and fats were cheaper than petroleum, the EU and USA rushed to promote the use of biofuels for various reasons. One not-so-frankly-revealed reason was that oilseed farmers...
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- 7. Friends of the Earth: Biofuels policy doubles CO2 emissions ... Rank: 71%
- for Friends of the Earth estimates how much forest is being cut down to replace food crops that have been displaced in order to grow biofuels for the UK - a figure currently omitted in Government statistics. It reveals that when the full impact of deforestation is taken into account, biofuels added to UK petrol and diesel may be producing more than twice the carbon dioxide of the fossil fuels they replace. Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to suspend the biofuels obligation...
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