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Tag Archives: sustainable energy
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
Europe to Study Indirect Land Use
The European Parliament on Dec. 17 adopted amendments to the Renewable Energy Sources Directive, raising targets for production of biofuels but at the same time setting strict sustainability standards to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the use of road transport fuels. The Parliament’s adopted text makes clear that it intends to calculate climate change emissions from international land use, but that the science is not currently available to do so: Whereas (11) In Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, European Parliament, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Energy Sources Directive, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, European Parliament, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Energy Sources Directive, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Discounting the Future of Biofuels
It appears that global leaders’ faith in energy technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to oil is waning, particularly for biofuels, as reported in GreenInc. Respondents to the survey, which included 1,000 environmental experts, ranked energy conservation and efficiency technologies as having the greatest potential impact, both short- and long-term. Some 44 percent of respondents also said they expect that the current economic crisis will hinder progress toward an effective international climate agreement. Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, climate change, Climate Change, discount rate, economy, environmental protection agency, EPA, Global Summit on Climate Change, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Lisa Heinzerling, Mark Delucchi, Poznan, renewable energy, renewable fuel standard, sustainable energy, U.S. EPA, United Nations Climate Change Conference, World Bank
Tags: biofuel, climate change, Climate Change, discount rate, economy, environmental protection agency, EPA, Global Summit on Climate Change, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Lisa Heinzerling, Mark Delucchi, Poznan, renewable energy, renewable fuel standard, sustainable energy, U.S. EPA, United Nations Climate Change Conference, World Bank
No land cleared for biofuels
One of the many flaws of the Science Magazine studies on biofuels and land use changes is their assumption that an acre of crops dedicated to biofuels in America will lead to an acre of deforestation elsewhere in the world. In fact, in a recent interview with the Nature Conservancy (his employer) Joe Fargione, the author of one of the studies, goes well beyond the data supported by his study and claims that “Increased demand Read More >
The Truth is Out There: But you have to look
Biofuels are great! There. I’ve been wanting to say that. And I say that not just because I work here at BIO, but because the science in the Science papers needs a little examining. There is misinformation all over the blogosphere. For example, Siko, in the German Carzone posting the following comments today, “Two studies shows that replacing fossil fuels with corn-based ethanol would double greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades. The studies Read More >
