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Tag Archives: Gallagher Review
I Say Sustainable, You Say…
The Guardian newspaper reported last week that environmental activist and reporter George Monbiot had successfully petitioned Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban an ad containing the tagline, “Biofuels — A Lower-Priced, Sustainable Answer to OPEC’s Oil.” The ad was sponsored by the Renewable Fuels Association, the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, the European Bioethanol Fuel Association, and the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association. Though Monbiot’s petition is not publicly available, the ASA’s adjudication response indicates it Read More >
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Tags: Advertising Standards Authority, biofuel, biofuels, Climate Change, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Gallagher Review, George Monbiot, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, Renewable Fuels Agency, Searchinger, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Tags: Advertising Standards Authority, biofuel, biofuels, Climate Change, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Gallagher Review, George Monbiot, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, Renewable Fuels Agency, Searchinger, Sustainability, sustainable energy
UK Study Highlights Uncertainty in Calculating Indirect Land Use Emissions
Britain’s Renewable Fuels Agency this week released the Gallagher Review, a report on the indirect effects of biofuels production that was prompted by the Searchinger and Fargione studies published in Science earlier this year. (See this blog’s earlier post on the forthcoming study.) The summary of the conclusions of the Gallagher Review include some very telling comments: Quantification of GHG emissions from indirect land-use change requires subjective assumptions and contains considerable uncertainty. “Current lifecycle analyses Read More >
