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Biofuelwatch editor's pick popular

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Palm Oil Action editor's pick popular

http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation: Fact or Fiction editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biocharbriefing.pdf

4 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

briefing paper regarding proposals for using biochar for climate change mitigation and the serious concerns about its likely impacts on climate, soil fertility and communities (pdf)
Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It

Biofuel by Decree editor's pick

http://www.terraper.org/file_upload/BiofuelbyDecree.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report details how the Burmese military’s nation-wide campaign to plant eight million acres of the Jatropha tree for biodiesel production is resulting in human rights abuses including forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity (pdf)
Added: May. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Climate Geo-engineering with 'carbon negative' bioenergy - climate saviour or climate endgame? editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/cnbe/cnbe.html

a critical analysis of proposals to use biochar (agrichar) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage proposals to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and mitigating climate change that depend upon forests (pdf)
Added: Nov. 26, 2008 | Rate It

Don't Log the Forests for the Fuel editor's pick

http://pressroomda.greenmediatoolshed.org/sites/default/files/Forest4Fuel08.pdf

examines the potential environmental and economic impacts of the cellulosic ethanol industry in the Southern United States (pdf)
Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It

Ghosts on our Own Land editor's pick

http://archive.forestpeoples.org/documents/prv_sector/oil_palm/ghosts_on_our_own_land_txt_06_eng.pdf

report by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch about the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Malaysian palm oil: Green gold or green wash? editor's pick

http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2008/malaysian-palm-oil-report

a Friends of the Earth investigation into the sustainability claims of Malaysia's palm oil lobby, with a special focus on state of Sarawak (pdf)
Added: Oct. 23, 2008 | Rate It

Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ABN_Agro.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It

Biofuels threaten to accelerate global warming

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biofuels-accelerate-climate-change.pdf

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production
Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | Rate It

Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm, The

http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/oilpalm.html

introduction to the social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations from the World Rainforest Movement
Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It

Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation of Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_web.pdf

a critical analysis of carbon trading and carbon-offsets, in particular of those based on tree monocultures, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and CO2 Emissionsin Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/02/26/riaureport.pdf

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

How Can I Avoid Products Containing Palm Oil?

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/faqs/palm_oil.html

Friends of the Earth details how demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil present in many of the goods we buy, is contributing to the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests
Added: Jun. 21, 2004 | Rate It

Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia - WARSI

http://www.warsi.or.id

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a network that supports habitat and resources management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) in Indonesia, whose habitat has been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration
Added: Jun. 16, 2003 | Rate It

Plantations Campaign

http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/carbon.html

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an index of articles from the World Rainforest Movement regarding problems caused by depending upon plantations for carbon sinks as a solution to climate change
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Real Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forest and the Climate, The

http://vh-gfc.dpi.nl/img/userpics/File/publications/Therealcostofagrofuels.pdf

report concludes current and future agrofuel technologies are a key direct and indirect cause of global deforestation, and thus contribute to climate change as well as to loss of livelihoods (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Seedlings: Agrofuels Special Issue

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?type=68

special report by GRAIN about the impacts of agrofuels from large-scale monocultures, with detailed articles looking at impacts on climate, ecosystems, food production and communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It

Status and Future of the Afforestation and Reforestation Carbon Sector

http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewfile.aspx?fileID=183

enables downloading of pdf file that discusses the status of current and future A/R markets
Added: May. 03, 2011 | Rate It

TimberWatch

http://www.timberwatch.org.za/

7 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a coalition that shares a common concern for the ways timber plantations impact on biodiversity, human communities, natural landscapes and ecosystem health - particulary in South Africa
Added: Oct. 20, 2003 | Rate It

Where the Trees are a Desert

http://www.tni.org//archives/reports/ctw/trees.pdf

joint report by Corporate Watch and FASE, Brazil, about the disastrous impacts of tree monocultures planted in Brazil under 'sustainable forestry' schemes, accompanied by the use of carbon credits (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

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