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·30/8/2010 - Biofuel demand driving Africa land grab - report, Reuters
·7/8/2010 - Why Dmitry Medvedev should turn his attention to Russia's peat bogs, Guardian
·10/2/2010 - Scrap biofuels targets and focus on improved public transport, Guardian
·20/4/2009 - California takes on King Corn, Daily Climate
·27/1/2009 - UK gets biofuels research centre, BBC
·17/12/2008 - What price will the world pay to prevent environmental change?, Guardian
·26/8/2008 - UK 'should end biofuel subsidies', BBC
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- 1. Biofuel Rainforests News, Links and Information from Forests... Rank: 73%
- Biofuel Rainforests News Results ·10/2/2010 - Scrap biofuels targets and focus on improved public transport, Guardian ·20/4/2009 - California takes on King Corn, Daily Climate ·27/1/2009 - UK gets biofuels research centre, BBC ·17/12/2008 - What price will the world pay to prevent environmental change?, Guardian ·26/8/2008 - UK 'should end biofuel subsidies', BBC ·5/8/2008 - How to Survive...
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- 2. EU: rainforests can be converted to palm oil plantations for... Rank: 71%
- Environmental groups quickly condemned the plan. "This leaked document shows the disgraceful attempts to push palm oil through European laws designed to prevent destruction of the world's forests," said Adrian Bebb, agrofuels campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth Europe, in a statement. "Allowing the expansion of palm plantations to fuel cars and lorries in Europe will have a devastating...
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- 3. Biofuels expansion in Africa may impact rainforests, wetlands Rank: 71%
- International at the Convention of Biological Diversity in Bonn. The study, titled Biofuel production in Africa, suggests that complex land rights coupled with limited availability of prime agricultural lands in Africa will likely drive biofuel development into rainforests and wetlands resulting in degradation of important ecosystem services. Further, the reports warns, biofuel production may...
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- Prepared by biofuelwatch, www.biofuelwatch.org Environmentalists warn that EU biofuel proposals put rainforests, the climate and communities at risk A European consultation on biofuels closes today, with nearly 5,000 respondents warning that current proposals fail to comply with an EU Summit decision that biofuel targets should be conditional on guaranteeing that biofuels must come from...
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- 5. Fuel watchdog warns on biofuels - Cool Earth Action - Keeping... Rank: 70%
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- Borneo should be a beachhead in the fight against global warming. Shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, the island produces much of the world's palm oil, the most energy-efficient of several vegetable oils being used in place of fossil fuels. Instead, Borneo is becoming a case study in how good environmental intentions can backfire. Driven by government subsidies for biofuels, which are made...
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- 7. Airlines searching for promising biofuel Rank: 69%
- Japan Airlines will conduct a test flight using biofuel on Jan. 30, becoming the fourth airline to undertake such a test as the industry is paying increasing attention to biofuel. On Jan. 7, Continental Airlines landed a Boeing 737-800 jet in Houston after a successful 90-minute test flight. Half of the fuel for one of the plane's two engines was biofuel. The pilot reported that the pace of fuel...
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