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·8/9/2008 - Britain Meets Biofuels Target But Imports Dominate, Reuters
·6/6/2008 - Biofuels Win At Summit But UN Food Envoy Fights On, Reuters
·30/5/2008 - UN biodiversity conference down to wire with scant results, Agence France-Presse
·29/5/2008 - Amnesty Condemns Forced Cane Labour In Brazil, Reuters
·20/5/2008 - Certified Non-Rain Forest Palm Oil Set For Germany, Reuters
·7/5/2008 - Biofuels -- clean energy or myth threatening world food security?, Xinhua
·6/5/2008 - Germany Says US Must Cut Biofuel Subsidies to Help Rainforest, Bloomberg
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·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal
·Brazil Gold Mining and Environment
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- 1. Brazil plans sugar cane-soy biofuel to cut pollution Rank: 73%
- cane-soy biofuel to cut pollution Brazil may soon refine a diesel fuel from soyoil and sugarcane to cut pollution from its urban fleets and power farm machinery in rural areas, industry experts said yesterday. The special fuel, known as biodiesel, is compatible with conventional diesel engines and requires no modification to the motor. The fuel has the capacity to cut air toxins by some 90 percent, posing less of a health threat, theysaid. "Biodiesel ... has virtually all the chemical-combustive...
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- 2. Brazil biofuel program has environmental risks, opportunities... Rank: 72%
- demand for ethanol and other biofuels on the international market threaten the Amazon rain forest if safeguards are not put in place because the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness is a target area for agriculture. Brazil's main biofuel is ethanol made from sugarcane. While sugarcane cultivation is minimal now in the Amazon, some environmentalists fear growing demand for the fuel could push cane growers into the Amazon. "I think at the end of the day ... it's a question of...
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- 3. Biofuels Republic Brazil Rank: 72%
- Biofuels Republic Brazil Brazil's rapidly expanding biofuels industry poses serious threats to the survival of people and the planet. Dr Mae-Wan Ho BRAZILIAN President Lula da Silva recently inaugurated Barralcool, the first integrated biofuels plant that will produce sugarcane-based ethanol and biodiesel from oilseeds. Brazil's bioethanol programme goes back at least to the oil crisis in the 1970s, and has been the world's most advanced biofuels market for decades. There are currently nearly...
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- 4. Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon Rank: 72%
- or they may just want to get a piece of the next gold rush. But they probably don't understand the importance of the cerrado, or the possible environmental consequences of their actions. Brazil's president Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva and some biofuel boosters claim that Brazilian ethanol production will not affect the Amazon (it will, mostly indirectly). Some also say that the Amazon's deforestation rate has slowed dramatically (true, if you've got a short attention span). Actually, the...
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- 5. Brazil President Defends Biofuels Rank: 71%
- insisted Thursday that rich nations must bear most of the cost of fighting global warning. He also blasted critics who fear Brazil's expanding biofuels industry could threaten the Amazon rain forest. Speaking at an international conference on climate change and deforestation, Silva said industrialized countries are to blame after polluting the planet for centuries. He said they have failed to make meaningful efforts to reduce greenhouse gases while consuming most of the world's resources. "How...
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- 6. Brazil: 'Soy King', Environment Minister strike deal on Amazon... Rank: 71%
- mongabay.com April 02, 2009 Meeting at the Katoomba payments-for-ecosystem-services conference in Cuiaba, Brazil, Carlos Minc, Brazil's Environment Minister, and Blairo Maggi, Governor of the State of Mato Grosso and the world's largest individual soy grower, put aside their ideological differences and agreed to grant a temporary reprieve for ranchers and farmers in the Amazonian state, allowing them up to four years to reforest their holdings to bring them up to legal code. Under Brazilian law...
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- 7. Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply Rank: 71%
- SHARE: | | Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply mongabay.com August 21, 2008 Biofuel production in Brazil will not affect food production or the Amazon rainforest in coming years, claimed a study released Tuesday by an economist in Sao Paulo. Fábio Silveira of Brazil's RC Consultores said that expansion of the current area of agricultural production could meet future demand for ethanol and biodiesel production without the need to clear more rainforest. "It is possible...
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