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The ILUC Debate, Four Years Later

by Bob Dineen (Renewable Fuels Association/Ethanol Producer Magazine)   ...The scientific community has better data, improved modeling tools, and a better appreciation of the uncertainty and complexity involved in ILUC analysis. But, above all, they have the benefit of some

January 12, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Subsidies Need Reform

by Nathanael Green (Energy Now/Natural Resources Defense Council)  ...Our dependence on oil hurts our economy, helps our adversaries and puts our security at risk. Each day we send over $1 billion overseas for oil, often to hostile nations like Iran,

December 30, 2011 Read Full Article

US – Ethanol Growth Not Leading to Cropland Expansion-New USDA Report Shows

(BiofuelsChat.com)  An in-depth analysis of U.S. land use patterns released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows total cropland decreased by 34 million acres from 2002 to 2007, the lowest level since USDA began collecting this data 1945. The

December 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Doing the Ethanol Shuffle

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  There’s a hot new craze called the “Ethanol Shuffle” that’s sweeping seaports from Sao Paulo to Los Angeles. No, it’s not a new dance, this shuffle is all about the “confounded realignment of the

December 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Solving ILUC by Thinking Out of the Box

by Robert Vierhout (Ethanol Producer Magazine/ePURE)  In various circles, the current thinking on indirect land use change (ILUC) is very much driven by negative perceptions. In the EU, the concern is that biofuel policy is counterproductive to what policymakers want

December 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Implications of Biodiesel-Induced Land-Use Changes for CO2 Emissions: Case Studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia

by Achten, W. M. J., and L. V. Verchot (Ecology and Society)  Biofuels are receiving growing negative attention. Direct and/or indirect land-use changes that result from their cultivation can cause emissions due to carbon losses in soils and biomass and could

December 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Shows High Emissions from Growing Biodiesel from Palm Oil

(Transport & Environment)  Biofuels produced from palm oil grown in tropical peatlands are a significant source of greenhouse gases. This is the finding of a new study done for the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) which, if taken on

November 28, 2011 Read Full Article

European Union Biodiesel Production Slumps in 2011

by John C.K. Daly (http://oilprice.com)   Greening the European Union has suffered a setback. The European Biodiesel Board is reporting that the European Union biodiesel industry production forecasts are noting a 2011 decrease in output, the first since data has been gathered,

November 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Is There Too Much Land in Europe?

by Robert Vierhout (Ethanol Producer Magazine/ePURE)  ...Even if that extra demand would not exist, why would European politicians want to increase idled land, knowing that year-on-year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, arable land in

November 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Publication: A Review of Environmental Issues in the Context of Biofuel Sustainability Frameworks

by Guariguata, M.R.; Masera, O.R.; Johnson, F.X.; von Maltitz, G.; Bird, N.; Tella, P.; Martínez-Bravo, R  (Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia)  With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting

November 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Risks Can Be Mitigated, Says E&Y Report

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...ILUC mitigation practices identified by Ernst & Young include the development of advanced generation biofuels, improvements to crop yields on existing agricultural land, the use of co-products for animal feed purposes, and crop production on

October 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Industry Split Emerges over Biofuels' Indirect Impact

by Charlie Dunmore   (Reuters)  European bioethanol producers have broken ranks and urged EU policymakers to introduce rules on the indirect climate impacts of biofuels that distinguish between "good and bad biofuel pathways," Reuters has learned. ...In a letter to the

October 06, 2011 Read Full Article

From Feedstocks to Finance: Upscaling Sustainable Biofuels

(Netzwerk Biotreibstoffe News)  Deployment of innovative biofuels technologies, possible, but requires strong political commitment, say European biofuels stakeholders. The annual meeting of European biofuels stakeholders stressed that advanced biofuels technologies are now available and called for robust support to ensure

September 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Exclusive: EU to Delay Action on Biofuels' Indirect Impact

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  The European Union's top climate and energy officials have agreed to delay by up to seven years rules that would penalize individual biofuels for their indirect climate impacts, details of the dealshowed. The political compromise is designed to

September 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Joint Nature Conservation Committee Publishes "Indirect Land Use Change from Biofuel Production: Implications for Biodiversity"

by Monika Bertzky, Valerie Kapos & Jörn P.W. Scharlemann (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)  Inference from production statistics and modelling studies suggest that iLUC has occurred, is likely to increase with increasing demand for biofuels and needs to be considered when assessing the

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

3 Things You Need to Know about Biofuels

by Maggie Koerth-Baker (BoingBoing)  ...In a nutshell, that’s why liquid fuel is so valuable. So far, it’s the clear winner when we need energy for transportation—especially air transportation and heavy, long-distance shipping—because it allows you to stuff a lot of

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

European Biodiesel Board Slams EU Thinking on Biofuel Land Use Impacts

(Argus Media)  Europe's biodiesel producers have commissioned an independent review of a policy document on biodiesel's indirect effects on land use change, which the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) maintains has skewed the European Commission's thinking on the subject to the

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Seeking Common Ground

by Julia Olmstead (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Traveling together to Brazil, Americans representing a range of perspectives on ethanol and environmentalism attempt to forge a shared path toward ethanol sustainability ...The divisiveness of the indirect land use change (ILUC) debate—the theory that

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

New Study Finds U.S. Ethanol Production Growth Has Not Triggered Indirect Land Use Change

(PR NewsWire/-- Prior studies failed to compare land use predictions to historical data A new study published in the July 2011 Biomass and Bioenergy Journal on indirect land use change (ILUC) due to biofuels production indicates that the real impact of U.S. biofuels

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

First EU Sustainability Schemes for Biofuels Get the Go-Ahead

(European Commission)  Brussels, 19 July 2011 - Biofuels can represent an environmentally-friendly replacement of fossil fuels. However, we need to make sure that tropical forests and carbon rich peatlands are not turned into oil palm or sugarcane plantations. We also

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: EU Cushions Biodiesel from Damning Carbon Research

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  The EU will protect existing investment in its $13 billion biodiesel sector even as it acts on new evidence that suggests making the fuel from food crops can do more harm than good in fighting climate

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Exclusive: Climate Impact Threatens Biodiesel Future in EU

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  Europe's biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. Europe's world-leading $13 billion biodiesel industry,

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Dr. Bruce Dale Receives FEW Award of Excellence

by Chuck Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  ...(A)t the 2011 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop, the 2011 Award of Excellence was presented to Dr. Bruce Dale, Michigan State University, by BBI International VP, Tom Bryan. Dale, professor of chemical engineering and associate director of the

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Commission Study Questions Carbon Dioxide Benefits from EU Biofuel

(E-Energy Market/European Voice)  Biofuel from palm oil, soybean and rapeseed produces more greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuel, once the environmental side-effects of its production are taken into account, an impact assessment prepared by the European Commission has found.  READ MORE

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Battles over Biofuels in Europe: NGOs and the Politics of Markets

by Sarah Pilgrim and Mark Harvey  (Sociological Research Online)  In this paper, we argue that a consortium of NGOs has played a significant role in shaping the market for, and restricting the use of, biofuels as an alternative to conventional

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: Food Price Hike More than Ethanol

by Jerry Hagstrom  (AgWeek)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a gathering of international agricultural development activists recently that U.S. biofuels should not blamed for most of the increases in food prices in recent years. “With respect to food prices, corn-based

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Do Biofuels Reduce Greenhouse Gases?

by Kevin Bullis  (MIT's Technology Review)  A new study fuels the debate over the impact of growing crops for fuel. Greenhouse-gas emissions from biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, may be lower than many researchers have estimated, according to a new

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

UK Renewable Energy Review: Another Acceptance of International Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Arguments Without Analysis

by Robert Kozak  (Advanced Biofuels USA)  The UK Committee on Climate Change, an “independent statutory body which was established under the Climate Change Act (2008),” recently published their recommendations on future renewable energy in the UK, Renewable Energy Review,

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

New Study Breaks Link Between Land Use, Biofuels

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  In a new study released today (May 16, 2011) by Michigan State University (MSU), biofuel production in the United States through 2007, “probably has not induced any indirect land use change.” The report was conducted by Seungdo

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Quantifying Variability in Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Inventories of Alternative Middle Distillate Transportation Fuels

Russell W. Stratton, Hsin Min Wong, and James I. Hileman  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   The presence of variability in life cycle analysis (LCA) is inherent due to both inexact LCA procedures and variation of numerical inputs. Variability in LCA

May 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel 2011: The Real Opportunity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  An interview with James Garton, president of Mission Biofuels USA subsidiary. We look at the jatropha 1.0 catastrophe, actual biodiesel capacity in the US, palm biodiesel, the RFS, and more. ...The company broke into the US

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazilian Renewable Energy: Attitude before Altitude, Part I

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Over the past 12 months, it has become hard to count the number of advanced biofuels companies that are setting up partnerships, or exploring them, in Brazil – but it is in the dozens. Hard

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Europe May Introduce Land Use Sustainabilty Criteria

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  This was one of the best weeks yet in the Asian biofuels industry. China decided to promote 2G biofuels production and reduce its CO2 emissions by up to 45 percent by 2020. India moved to

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Land Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventional Oil Production and Oil Sands

by Yeh, Sonia, Sarah Jordaan, Adam Brandt, Merritt R. Turetsky, Sabrina Spatari, David W. Keith  (Institute of Transportation Studies/University of California-Davis)   Debates surrounding the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from land use of biofuels production have created a need to

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Next-Generation Biofuels Panel Discussion

(Milken Institute Global Conference)  With oil prices spiking and concern over climate change growing, biofuels hold tremendous appeal. But they must overcome considerable hurdles. Further process and technology refinements are needed to ensure that biofuels make a significant dent in

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Europe's Biofuel Dispute Splits the Industry

by Pete Harrison  (Reuters)  A divisive European debate over the green credentials of biofuels has stalled investment and threatens the future of some producers, but could also create lucrative opportunities, companies said on Tuesday. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Group Brings Different Views on Biofuels to Brazil

by Heather Thorstensen  (AgriNews.com)  Four Minnesota farmers were part of a group that traveled to Brazil in March to learn more about indirect land use change, a divisive issue surrounding biofuels. The Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy took a total

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

IEA Releases Technology Roadmap Biofuels for Transport

(Industrial Fuels and Power)  A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that the widespread deployment of biofuels can play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector and enhancing energy security, when produced sustainably. With

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack Testifies on Biofuels

by Andy Eubank (USDA/Hoosier Ag Today)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently testified before a Senate committee on the effect and influence of biofuels. Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Vilsack responded to comments and questions about ethanol’s

April 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Indirect Fuel Use Change (IFUC) and the Lifecycle Environmental Impact of Biofuel Policies

by Deepak Rajagopal, G. Hochman, and D. Zilberman (Science Direct)  A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits (or costs) of renewable fuel such as biofuel is that it simply replaces an energy-equivalent amount of

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Indirect Land Use Change: A Second-Best Solution to a First-Class Problem

by David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, and Deepak Rajagopal  (AgBioForum)  Concern about the possible effects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land-use changes (ILUC) associated

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Food and Fuel Debate Important to All Ethanol

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Biofuels Digest)   ...This faux debate is as important to future ethanol producers as it is to existing ethanol producers. And those looking to capitalize on starch-based ethanol’s public relations struggles need to be cognizant

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Action Required Now if Alternative Aviation Fuels Are to Help Meet Emissions Targets, Concludes Major European Study

(GreenAirOnline)  The transfer from fossil fuels to biofuels is a must if the air transport industry is to survive beyond the middle of century, was the stark message from Dirk van Vreckem of the European Commission’s mobility and transport directorate

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Uncertainty in Indirect Land Use Change in the Life Cycle of Biofuels: Impacts for Legislation

by Adam J. Liska (Department of Biological Systems Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)   Liska opens his presentation with the formerly impending climate change legislation H.R. 2454, and states that the act would have done away with the inclusion of

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

European Biofuels Technology Platform Adds Reports to Library

(European Biofuels Technology Platform)  The mission of the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTP) is to contribute to the development of cost-competitive, world-class biofuels technologies, to the creation of a healthy biofuels industry and to accelerate the deployment of sustainable biofuels

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

CARB Tackling Crude Oil’s Carbon Intensity in LCFS

by Joanna Schroeder  (DomesticFuel.com)  ...(S)till under fire is CARB’s final ruling on the carbon intensity levels given for ethanol and biodiesel. When CARB determined the original levels of corn ethanol, it essentially barred the fuel from qualifying as a low

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

2 Studies Target Sticking Points, Gaps in Life-Cycle Calculations of Biofuels

by Jenny Mandel (New York Times/Greenwire)  Conducting in-depth life-cycle assessments of the environmental impacts of biofuels is complicated, and new research suggests some questions in comparing biofuels to alternatives like petroleum-based fuels will never be answered. Furthermore, one study argues, consumer

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Gets Seat on California LCFS Panel

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)   Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) Vice President of Research and Analysis Geoff Cooper has been selected to represent the ethanol industry on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) Advisory Panel. Panel

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

How Biofuels Contribute to the Food Crisis

by Tim Searchinger (op ed The Washington Post)  ...Agricultural production is keeping up in general with the growing demand for food - but it keeps up with the added demand for biofuels only if growing weather is good. ...Higher fuel

February 12, 2011 Read Full Article

CARB to Review Ethanol Carbon Intensity Amendments

by Kris Bevill  (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The California Air Resources Board will hold a public hearing Feb. 24 to consider 25 amendments proposed by various ethanol producers, representing 1.6 billion gallons of annual domestic production, to reduce the carbon intensity

January 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Spinning ILUC Policy the European Way

by Robert Vierhout  (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  It took the European Commission several stakeholder meetings, two public consultations and many more economic modelling studies to conclude that the indirect land use change (ILUC) effects of biofuel demand are not that obvious.

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

by Steven Sexton, David Zilberman   (National Bureau of Economic Research)  Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Estimates Land Available for Biofuel Crops

(EurekAlert/University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana)  Using detailed land analysis, Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce up to half of the world's current fuel consumption – without affecting food crops or pastureland. Published in the journal Environmental Science

January 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: A Market of Political Opportunities

by Robert Vierhout (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In Europe, much more than in the United States, green (but not just) non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are engaged loudly and aggressively in the biofuel debate. For several years now, a number of NGOs have

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Popping the Hood on California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: A Digest Special Series

by Brooke Coleman (NewFuelsAlliance/Biofuels Digest)   ...(W)hat’s good and what needs to be fixed in the LCFS? Where should the biofuels industry be happy, be  hopeful, or be hopping mad? Brooke Coleman of the New Fuels Alliance – who knows this better

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 2: The Misinformation Campaign

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  ...According to the Renewable Fuels Association data, the United States produced and used approximately 10.6 billion gallons of ethanol in 2009, making the US the largest producer of ethanol in the world. (Renewable Fuels

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 1: The Biofuel History

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  In the United States, domestic ethanol production and motor fuel additives are becoming more and more common. However, a bevy of misinformation campaigns surround the use of resources for these clean energy initiatives. These

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Swiss Study Urges Support to Second Generation of Biofuels

(Khabrein) A new Swiss Study by the federal office of power and environment assured that the so-called "second generation of Biofuels" has good chances for the environment and development as well. "Second generation biofuels impress, because of the characteristic that raw materials

December 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels: Europe Adopts Report on Indirect Land Use Change

by S.C.  (TeatroNaturale International)   The Commission published today (December 22, 2010) a report on indirect land use change related to biofuels and bioliquids. The report acknowledges that indirect land use change can reduce greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with biofuels,

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Deforestation 'Not So Important for Climate Change'

by Fred Pearce   (New Scientist)  Climate negotiations were dealt a bombshell at the weekend when ecologists reported that carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests are probably only half previous estimates. If we are emitting less carbon dioxide from deforestation that's

December 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Brazil 2010 Amazon Deforestation Data Shows Lowest Rate Ever Recorded

(PR NewsWire)  Deforested area reaches lowest levels for second consecutive year Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon declined 14 percent from August 2009 to July 2010, reaching the lowest rates ever recorded for the second consecutive year, President Luiz Inacio Lula

December 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Fat-to-Biodisel Plant Approved

by John Upton  (The Bay Citizen)   A proposal to convert a rendering facility in southeastern San Francisco into a biodiesel manufacturing plant was approved Tuesday by the Port of San Francisco. ...Under the plan, animal and food waste that is currently turned

December 02, 2010 Read Full Article

California Regulator's Move Helps Corn-Based Ethanol Demand: RFA

(Platts) A decision this week by California regulators to lower corn-based ethanol's so-called indirect land use penalty is good for that product's demand, but timing of the change is not, the Renewable Fuels Association said Friday. California is in the midst

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuel Plan Will Cause Rise in Carbon Emissions

by Oliver Wright (The Independent)  Britain is signed up to a European guarantee to source 10 per cent of its transport fuel from renewable sources, such as biofuels, within the next 10 years.  But ministers have said that the policy is

November 11, 2010 Read Full Article

EU Biofuels Goals May Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Lobby Groups Say

by Alex Morales  (Bloomberg)  Biofuels targets in the European Union could raise emissions of greenhouse gases because forests and wetlands will be destroyed to grow the crops necessary, nine environmental groups said in a study. ...The EU aims to get 10 percent

November 08, 2010 Read Full Article

New Reports Reinforce Need to Expand Biofuel Production

by Bob Dinneen  (The Hill/Renewable Fuels Association)  Given the latest news from two government reports, we need to start changing the “drill baby drill” chant to “distill baby distill.” One study, from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently

October 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Nagoya 2010: Weighing up the Risks and Benefits of Biofuels Development

(United Nations Environment Programme) Water, land use change and invasive species are key factors that must be addressed alongside greenhouse gas cuts Water could determine the degree to which bioenergy can contribute to combating climate change by reducing the world's reliance on

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Done Right: Land Efficient Animal Feeds Enable Large Environmental and Energy Benefits

by Bruce E. Dale, Bryan D. Bals, Seungdo Kim and Pragnya Eranki (Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University)    There is an intense ongoing debate regarding the

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Dept. of Energy Researchers: ILUC Impact "Minimal to Zero"

(Renewable Fuels Association)  The unproven notion that expanded U.S. ethanol production means new acres around the world must be brought into cultivation is taking another blow.  In  a soon-to-be published paper,  researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Argentine Researchers Find Major Flaws in US EPA’s Indirect Land Use Change Methodology

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Argentina, researchers from INTA, analyzing the assumptions of the US EPA’s indirect land use change models, concluded that “•    Significant errors have been verified in the determination of the original use of lands in

October 20, 2010 Read Full Article

The Massive Potential of U.S. Biofuels

by Al Fin (OilPrice.com)  ...Up until now, most people analysing US biofuels potential have failed to look at a realistic and integrated system of fuels and food. In real life -- unlike a typical computer model with excessively simplified and

October 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Brazil Set to Assist Tanzania Survey Biofuel Farming Areas

by Beatrice Philamon (IPP Media)  Tanzanian and Brazilian experts are expected to carry out a countrywide survey to identify and propose strategic areas that would be allocated for biofuel farming. “Our intention is to have special areas or land that will be

October 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels: a New Methodology to Estimate GHG Emissions Due to Global Land Use Change

by Roland Hiederer, Fabien Ramos, et al. (European Commission Joint Research Centre)  This study implements a new methodology developed by the JRC IES and IE for estimating changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil and above- and below-ground biomass resulting

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Journal of Peasant Studies Publishes Perspectives on New Agrarian Relations Related to Biofuels

(Journal of Peasant Studies)   In this collection we ask a number of questions emerging out of the new agrarian political economy created by the ‘biofuel complex’. Together the papers offer perspectives from political economy, political sociology and political ecology, and

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Swedish Biofuels Do Have Major Benefits for the Climate

(Alpha Galileo)  For the first time, researchers have taken an overall look at Swedish biofuels and analysed what impact they have on the environment, both in relation to one another and to the fossil fuel alternatives petrol and diesel. The results

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Hostile Takeover: What Happens to Biofuels if Republicans Take Congress?

Interview of BIO's Brent Erickson by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...BE: I have been a little bit disappointed in the Obama administration. When he was in the Senate he as very pro-biofuels.  He had to choose his priorities, and that

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

RFA Disputes EPA’s Inclusion of Biogenic Carbon Emissions

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering equating biogenic carbon emissions with fossil fuel emissions under the Tailoring Rule, which requires the accounting and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Biogenic

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Cheers to Biomass in Boston; CARB States Petroleum Has No Indirect Effects

by Anna Austin and Lisa Gibson  (Biomass Magazine)  ...Director of the Northeast Regional New Fuels Alliance Andrew Schuyler, who followed Cleaves, explained some policies the organization has been working on, primarily the development of a Low Carbon Fuel Standard similar

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Opinion: Making Sure We Get It Right on Biofuels

By Patricia Monahan  (Capitol Weekly)    This year we’ve had no shortage of examples of why we need to move away from fossil fuels, from the oil disaster in the Gulf and continued dependence on Middle Eastern oil to the record-hot temperatures

September 02, 2010 Read Full Article

Thinking Green? It's Not Just Black and White.

by Katherine Salant (The Washington Post)  ...To build a 2,200-square-foot house, an acre of forest will be clear-cut somewhere on the globe and a huge hole in the earth, roughly equal in size to the volume of the house, will be

August 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Brazilian Biofuels Run into EU Obstacles

by Yans Felippe Geckler (IPS News)  Brazil has begun a counterattack on the European Union's measures for certifying crop-based fuels, which could lead to import barriers for this energy source coming from the South American giant. ...The EU's certification requirements for

August 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Another Brick in the (Blend) Wall: Key Thresholds and Barriers for Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But even were the US EPA to approve E15 ethanol blending, there are some other significant walls and thresholds to keep in mind. Here are the Digest’s Top 10. 1. The $60 oil parity wall.  At the

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Journal of Industrial Ecology Gathers Corn Ethanol Debate Articles

edited by Reid Lifset (Journal of Industrial Ecology)   Includes Corn Ethanol Articles Related to Debate over Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Corn-Ethanol The Journal of Industrial Ecology is pleased to make the following articles on the greenhouse gas emissions from corn-ethanol freely available

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Air Resources Board Is Clinging to Old Science

by Joe Irvin (Capitol Weekly)  This week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) convened a group of experts to discuss issues related to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that was approved last year. The Expert Working Group has been

August 19, 2010 Read Full Article

The Land Rush Doesn't Have to End in a Poor Deal for Africans

by Katie Allen (The Guardian)  It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities ...Sadly for anyone who happens to live on that farmland there are countless examples of governments handing it over at

August 17, 2010 Read Full Article

APOV: A Strong Case for Ethanol

by John M. Sawyer and Michael C. Sawyer  (The Daily News)  ...Corn ethanol is not responsible for destruction of forest land. Total U.S. crop acres are actually declining, total U.S. land devoted to crops will be 346 million acres in

August 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Farmers & Ranchers Don’t Deserve Blame For World Hunger

by Richard Keller   (Cattle Network)  As renewable fuels continues to be something that people of the world support in general, there also continues to be those complaints that crop production and land use for fuels is inappropriate when so much

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuels Association Analysis Reveals More Problems With EPA GHG Accounting

(Renewable Fuels Association)  Further analysis of EPA’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) reveals more errors in the agency’s calculation of corn ethanol and other biofuels’ carbon intensity, according to new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). In a letter to EPA

August 09, 2010 Read Full Article

CARB Proposes LCFS Soil Sustainability Provisions

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is far from over on discrediting biofuels as part of their mandated policy known as the Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS). For the past year, the ethanol industry has been

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Report Finds Bioenergy Production Can Expand across Africa without Displacing Food

(EurekAlert)  Policies needed to address potential conflicts, but report views bioenergy as crucial to 'unlocking Africa's latent potential'. Crops can be produced for bioenergy on a significant scale in west, eastern and southern Africa without doing damage to food production or

July 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Securing Foreign Oil: A Case for Including Military Operations in the Climate Change Impact of Fuels

by Brooke Coleman (Biofuels Digest/New Fuels Alliance)  Securing Foreign Oil is the title of Adam Liska’s and Richard Perrin’s recent article in Environment Magazine detailing why military emissions should be included in the carbon intensity (CI) values of petroleum fuels. The

July 23, 2010 Read Full Article

25 Million Acres of Corn with Nowhere to Go, by 2030? A Digest Special Report

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(D)oomsayers who have been predicting an inevitable conflict between food and fuel appear to have been completely off the mark. Rather than a shortage of food, the increased pace of biotechnology innovation associated with bioenergy is

July 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Considerations for Factoring Biomass into Clean Energy

(Washington Post)  Editorial     ...Many lawmakers want the government to require utilities to derive a certain percentage of their electricity from clean sources. And one of the sources that would probably qualify is so-called renewable biomass -- everything from forest debris

July 06, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA Report Punches Another Hole in Land Use Change Theory

(Renewable Fuels Association)  The amount of land dedicated to crops in the United States has dropped for the second straight year in 2010, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report, which shows total cropland

July 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation by Agricultural Intensification

by  Jennifer A. Burney, Steven J. Davis, and David B. Lobell  (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)  As efforts to mitigate climate change increase, there is a need to identify cost-effective ways to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Agriculture is

June 26, 2010 Read Full Article

China Corn Purchases Could Exceed 1 Million Tonnes

(Farm Chemicals International)  The US Grains Council (USGC) says China could increase its corn purchases from the US to more than 1 million tonnes during the next 18 months, according to Bloomberg. Thomas Dorr, USGC president, stated that he "wouldn’t be

June 21, 2010 Read Full Article

High-Yield Agriculture Slows Pace of Global Warming, Say Stanford Researchers

by Louis Bergeron  (Stanford University)  Advances in high-yield agriculture over the latter part of the 20th century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere – the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – according

June 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Palm Oil’s Promotion as Diesel Alternative Draws Fire

by Beth Gardiner  (New York Times)  Ubiquitous in products from cookies to cosmetics, and increasingly in European fuel tanks, too, palm oil is driving the destruction of some of Southeast Asia’s last tracts of untouched rainforest and leading to huge

June 04, 2010 Read Full Article

RFA: Carbon Accounting Should Be Equitable, Based on Science

(Renewable Fuels Association)  The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) today continued to call into question accounting gimmicks and unproven theories used by environmental activists seeking to undermine the growth of biofuels as a way to displace fossil fuels. The latest iteration is a

June 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Food, Feed and Fuel Combine for a Modicum of Grain Price Stability

by Treena Hein  (Australian Farm Journal/June 2010)  Despite all the debate about negative climate change impacts on agriculture and rising world population increasing demand for food, the stark reality is that world grain stocks are finely balanced. Treena Hein discovers

June 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Indirect Land Use: One Consideration Too Many in Biofuel Regulation

by David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, and Deepak Rajagopal  (Agricultural and Resource Economics Update -- University of California)   ...While including Indirect Land Use Effects in assessing the impact of biofuel seems appealing, we will argue here against an indirect land use in biofuel

May 21, 2010 Read Full Article

EPA's 'Tailoring Rule' and the Biomass Industry

(RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  ...Including biomass power plants under the EPA’s tailoring rule is a clear policy shift and may imply a change in position for future policy.  The lack of distinction between renewable biomass as an alternative fuel to traditional fossil fuels like

May 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Southeast Asia – the Bio-Based Arabia?

by Per Dahlen (Biofuels Digest)   ...Putting all this data together we seen that Southeast Asia requires some 2.7Mbpd, or 135 million tons per year to eliminate oil imports and to increase energy security. With second generation biofuels crops and technologies

May 12, 2010 Read Full Article

American Soybean Association Advises NRC that Soy Oil Can Fulfill Demand for Food, Feed and Fuel

(American Soybean Association)  The American Soybean Association (ASA) provided comments today to the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Economic and Environmental Impacts of Increasing Biofuels Production. ASA told the Committee that biodiesel made from soybean oil can play a vital

May 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Abengoa Takes on Myths about Biofuels with Evidence

(Abengoa Bioenergy)  Biofuels are being attacked. The claim "Bioethanol is the main cause of increased food prices is one of the many falsehoods that are being made to reach the public. Therefore, we decided to defend the sector and remove

May 06, 2010 Read Full Article

“You Have a Friend in Bioenergy”: Sustainability, Advanced Biofuels, Rural Incomes and the Developing World

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...With respect to energy security, consider this: it is estimated that ten percent of all US military casualties come from the delivery of fuel. Even if it were true that none of the deployments of

May 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Purdue Report Refutes Indirect Land Use Numbers

(Farm Futures)   A recently completed analysis from Purdue University concluded that the California Air Resources Board overestimated the indirect land use change impact of grain-based ethanol by a factor of two in developing its Low Carbon Fuels Standard one year

May 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Towards Sustainable Biofuel Development: Assessing the Local Impacts of Large-Scale Foreign Land Acquisitions in Ghana

  by George C. Schoneveld, Laura A. German, and Eric Nutakor  (World Bank)  This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Ghanaian legal and institutional framework in managing the trade-offs of large-scale land acquisition, particularly for biofuel feedstock expansion. The research focuses

May 03, 2010 Read Full Article

America Has Lost More Than Twenty-three Million Acres of Agricultural Land

(American Farmland Trust)  —“The findings from the 2007 National Resources Inventory (NRI) serve as a stark reminder that our nation’s agricultural land base—and the benefits it supplies—is threatened by poorly planned development,” says Jon Scholl, President of American Farmland Trust

May 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Surprise Departure of European Biodiesel Board & the European Bioethanol Fuel Association

(PetroWorld.com)   It has been reported that the European Biodiesel Board and the European Bioethanol Fuel Association based in Brussels have both withdrawn their membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels based in Switzerland. According to Biodigest, the European Biodiesel Board has

May 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Your "Sustainable" Mantra -- Organic, Local, and Slow -- Is No Recipe for Saving the World's Hungry Millions

by Robert Paarlberg (Foreign Policy) ... Food has become an elite preoccupation in the West, ironically, just as the most effective ways to address hunger in poor countries have fallen out of fashion. Helping the world's poor feed themselves is no longer

April 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Time To Reinforce Distillers Grains Value

(CattleNetwork)  ...U.S. ethanol industry exported 5.64 million metric tons (mmt) of distillers grains worth nearly $1 billion in 2009, which was 24 percent above 2008 levels. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) touts the worldwide livestock feeding of distillers grains as displacing

April 19, 2010 Read Full Article

Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Modeling Land Use and Land Use Change in Brazil

By Leila Harfuch (Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations). In her talk she underlined the modeling land use and land use change in Brazil, stressing out deforestation as a serious issue. Deforestation causes and affects cattle and pasture land expansion. The

April 13, 2010 Read Full Article

The Dirty Underside of Lula's Clean Energy Revolution

by Nikolas Kozloff  (Foreign Policy)  ...Buffeted by the oil price shock of 1973, the country's military dictators grew concerned about Brazil's reliance on foreign imports of fossil fuels. Their solution: Pour government subsidies into the sugar industry and mandate ethanol

April 12, 2010 Read Full Article

The Role of Demand for Biofuel in the Agricultural Commodity Price Spikes of 2007/08

by Simone Pfuderer, Grant Davies, Ian Mitchell  (Food and Farming Analysis, Defra)   This paper is part of a larger body of work that aims to shed more light on what led to the high agricultural commodity prices in 2008. The

April 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels and Global Trade Study Goes Online

"Global trade and environmental impact of the EU biofuels mandate" is the title of a study finalised by the International Food Policy Research Institute this 25 March 2010. The report is one of four studies commissioned by the European Commission

April 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Furst-McNess Expands: Company Markets a By-Product of Ethanol Production to China

by Eric Petermann (The Journal-Standard)  Furst-McNess has started a new business that markets a by-product of ethanol production, dry distillers’ grain, for use as a feed supplement for livestock, and has already established a relationship that exports that product to

March 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Deforestation Continues, but More Slowly, Report Says

 World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten years but continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries, FAO announced today. Globally, around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to

March 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes to Renewable Fuel Standard Program; Final Rule

Under the Clean Air Act Section 211(o), as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), the Environmental Protection Agency is required to promulgate regulations implementing changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard program.   The revised statutory requirements specify

March 26, 2010 Read Full Article

EU Report Signals U-Turn on Biofuels Target

(Reuters) ...The European Union appears to be backtracking on its biofuels policy with a new study showing that more than 5.6 percent of biofuel in road fuels can damage the environment. EU leaders agreed in 2008 that 10 percent of transport

March 26, 2010 Read Full Article

The True Cost of Corn Ethanol: A Number of Recent Studies Have Missed the Mark.

by Joshua Kagan (GreentechMedia)  ...While I am completely unapologetic in my belief that Congress and the White House are unwisely pursuing a biofuels policy in which corn ethanol, soybean biodiesel, and cellulosic ethanol have been chosen over radically transformative feedstocks

March 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Experts Probing Biofuel Impacts

by Philip Brasher (DesMoinesRegister.com)  The National Research Council is digging into the economic and environmental impact of biofuels, but the results of the congressionally mandated study won’t be known until next year. That means the results won’t be known until

March 23, 2010 Read Full Article

International Energy Forum's Assessment of Biofuels Potential and Limitiations

by Claude Mandil and Adnan Shihab-Eldin  (International Energy Forum) Biofuels production, driven by the potential to contribute to energy security, climate change mitigation and rural development, has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Several countries have initiated policies to support

March 22, 2010 Read Full Article

University of Minnesota Speaker Says Global Land Use Must Be Considered in Biofuel Debate

by Heather Thorstensen (AgriNews.com)  John Sheehan of the University of Minnesota says the debate on biofuels should shift from food versus fuel to how land is used globally for biofuel production and other purposes. "We need to not look at land

March 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuel ‘Worse than Regular Petrol or Diesel’

(ETA) The environmental impact of clearing forests to make way for biofuel crops is such that using fossil fuel in cars is better for the environment than biofuels made from crops such as palm oil. Under the minimum sustainability standard set

March 02, 2010 Read Full Article

Claims in ActionAid Publication against Biofuels Largely Questionable

(European Bioethanol Fuel Association)  “Meals per Gallons”, a publication against biofuels recently produced by ActionAid, is based largely on unfounded claims, disputed data and one-sided arguments says eBio, the European Bioehtanol Industry Association.  “In particular, the report paints biofuels as the villain

March 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Would Things Be Different without RFS1or2? Not Really.

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Since the provisions of the RFS were written into the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 without a realistic funding provision, RFS and RFS2 are, as a practical matter, “Sense of

February 25, 2010 Read Full Article

Vilsack: Administration Wants to Expand Biofuels

(DTN Ethanol Center)  President Barack Obama will continue championing biofuels as a job creator, said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack when he spoke to members of the Governors' Biofuels Coalition on Monday. Vilsack is hopeful for a positive decision on

February 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Rep Appointed to California Panel

by Cindy Zimmerman  (DomesticFuel.com)  At least one ethanol industry representative has been appointed to an expert work group attempting to assess the true carbon footprint of all fuel sources under the California’s proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard. POET Senior Vice President

February 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuels Association Publishes 2010 Ethanol Industry Outlook

Our industry produced a record 10.6 billion gallons of ethanol in 2009. Efficiency enhancements and innovations in production combined with improved farming techniques allowed us to achieve this record with existing corn acreage and reduced process water.   As we look to

February 19, 2010 Read Full Article

RFS2 a Hot Topic at Conference in Orlando

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...(S)aid Sarah Dunham of the EPA, the EPA received real data during the comment period that helped shape the rule, including indirect land use change (ILUC). “I can safely say that this is the

February 18, 2010 Read Full Article

New Renewable Fuel Standard A Mixed Blessing For Agriculture

by Lisa Hare (Yankton Press & Dakotan)  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent final ruling on the national Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was met with mixed responses by farm state politicians and organizational leaders. “This is a good news/bad news announcement

February 18, 2010 Read Full Article

EU Biofuels 10% Targets Cause Millions of People to Go Hungry and Increase Food Prices and Landlessness, Says Report

by John Vidal (The Guardian)  EU companies have taken millions of acres of land out of foodproduction in Africa, central America and Asia to grow biofuels for transport, according to development campaigners. The consequences of European biofuel targets, said the

February 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Corn and Fuel Groups Weigh In on Ethanol

(New York Times) letters to editor Re “Sensible Rules for Ethanol” (editorial, Feb. 11):     While American corn farmers are pleased the Environmental Protection Agency recognizes that corn ethanol offers significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared with gasoline, we disagree strongly

February 17, 2010 Read Full Article

U.S., Europe Going Opposite Way On Biofuels

Jonathan Fahey (Forbes.com)  It is becoming ever more apparent that there is one big squishy variable in the calculations that determine whether biofuels help the planet or help destroy it. That variable is called the indirect land use charge (sic),

February 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Is Ethanol from Corn Bad for the Climate? The Obama Administration Says No, California Says Yes. Who Is Right?

by Douglas Fischer (Scientific American)  The Obama administration last week gave the green light to corn ethanol as a low-carbon renewable fuel – in apparent contradiction to California's declaration last summer that the biofuel's carbon footprint was too big to

February 17, 2010 Read Full Article

NY Times Applauds EPA Inclusion of ILUC in RFS2

(OPIS)  The New York Times is praising U.S. EPA for including the international indirect land use change (ILUC) calculation in its lifecycle greenhouse gas reduction threshold as part of the finalized expanded renewable fuels standard (RFS2), issued last week. ...In response,

February 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Questions About Biofuels’ Environmental Costs Could Alter Europe’s Policies

by James Kanter(New York Times)...In a memorandum, Jean-Luc Demarty, the top civil servant in the agriculture department at the European Commission, wrote to a colleague in December that “an unguided use of I.L.U.C. would kill biofuels in the E.U.” His words

February 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Indirect Land-Use Changes Can Overcome Carbon Savings from Biofuels in Brazil

David M. Lapola, Ruediger Schaldach, Joseph Alcamo, Alberte Bondeau, Jennifer Koch, Christina Koelking, and Joerg A. Priess (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)  Abstract:  The planned expansion of biofuel plantations in Brazil could potentially cause both direct and indirect

February 15, 2010 Read Full Article

UC Merced Scientist Honored for Biofuels Research

(Central Valley Business Times)  The mass production of biofuels could be a major step toward eliminating dependence on fossil fuels, but a number of factors have stood in the way, including the argument against using productive agricultural land for fuel

February 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Getting a True Measure on Biofuels: Effects of 'Indirect' Land Use Figure in Energy Future

by C. Boyden Gray (Washington Times)  Little noticed outside a small policy community, an issue has quietly arisen in recent years that, while seemingly technical, has the potential to derail the nation's attempts to address the issues of energy security

February 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel and Fun

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  I’ve taken to adding “fun” to the quartet sung by many when speaking of the uses served by our crop land and forests:  food, feed, fiber and fuel.  The song began as a duet

February 09, 2010 Read Full Article

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Testing the Boundaries of Green Federalism

Mackinnon Lawrence (Biofuels Digest)  California, a long-time pioneer in the area of environmental law and policy, is now the target of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of its recently adopted Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), given final approval by the

February 09, 2010 Read Full Article

How to Create Effective Biofuels Public Policy

by Joanna Schroeder (domesticfuels.com)  One of the biggest challenges for our country lies in the issue of how to create effective public policies that will grow the biofuels industry and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Dr. Antonio Bento, associate

January 25, 2010 Read Full Article

BIO Comments on Preliminary Draft Regulation for the California Cap-and-Trade Program

Comments by Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Section of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) to the California Environmental Protection Agency and Air Resources Board (January 11, 2010):  ... The essence of the cap-and-trade program is the establishment

January 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels and Indirect Land Use Change Effects: the Debate Continues

by John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) While debate on biofuels and bioenergy generally has sparked controversy over claimed greenhouse gas emissions benefits available with a switch to biomass, these claims have generally not taken into account

December 28, 2009 Read Full Article

Brazil Warns EU on Biofuel Sustainability

(EurActiv)  EU rules for calculating indirect land-use changes caused by biofuel production would not be legitimate without an internationally-accepted methodology, a group of developing countries has told the European Commission.  The warning was sent to Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on

December 28, 2009 Read Full Article

International Technology Action Plan on Bioenergy Released

Bioenergy includes any kind of chemical energy accumulated through photosynthetic processes in organic plant matter (i.e., biomass). Example sources of bioenergy include dedicated energy crops (short rotation wood, perennial grasses), agricultural and forestry products and wastes, biogas resulting from the

December 15, 2009 Read Full Article

VIDEO: Brazilian Government Tackling Climate Change in Brazil

The Brazilian National Plan on Climate Change, launched in December 2008, comprises a set of over one hundred actions and programs to reduce carbon emissions across different sectors of the Brazilian economy.  The two main tactics emphasized in the plan

December 09, 2009 Read Full Article

Can Feedstock Production for Biofuels Be Sustainable in California?

by Stephen R. Kaffka (California Agriculture)   The use of crops and crop residues as feedstocks for biofuels increases domestic and global supplies, creates new industries, and may result in reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. Uncertainty about the best crop and residue sources,

December 03, 2009 Read Full Article
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