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 Stories About: biofuels AND Brazil AND China AND energy AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND Indonesia
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Show me the money
How to save the last carbon sinks |
biodiversivist |
11 Apr 2007 |
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| Marcel Silvius recently declared in the Herald Tribune that palm oil is a failure as a biofuel. Rhett Butler over at Mongabay thinks otherwise, as he argues in an article titled, um, 'Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel.' His main point is that even if America and Europe were to reject palm oil biodiesel as inherently unsustainable, the forests would still be converted to palm oil by China. We can't stop its development by refusing to use it, so we (by 'we' he mean ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics) |
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