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GENERAL OVERVIEW
Quotes
A collection of recent quotes about the dangers of agrofuels.
Biofuels or biofools?
article for "Chain Reaction", the FoE Australia Magazine by Almuth Ernsting
2008, the year to stop agrofuels
Dr Andrew Boswell
A slightly different version of this article was published in Green World, the publication of the Green Party of England and Wales in January 2008.
Jan 2008
Biofuels : an unfolding disaster
Dr Andrew Boswell
An overview review of critical social, human and climate issues prior to UNFCCC, Bali. Published in ECOS, the publication of the British Association of Nature Conservationists.
Dec 2007
The Biofuel Timebomb
Dr Andrew Boswell
This article was first published in Trees, the publication of the Journal of the International Tree Foundation, December 2007, as UNFCCC, Bali, started. This article is an overview review of the threats to trees from mass scale biofuels development across a number of developing aspacts: deforestation, peat destruction, energy generation from oils, wood-based biodiesel production, GM technology, and regulatory failure.
Dec 2007
More details and full references
No to the Agrofuels Craze
Report by GRAIN.
02/7/2007
The real cost of agrofuels - Food, forest and the climate
Report by Global Forest Coalition
Dec 2007
Agrofuels - Towards a reality check in nine key areas
03/7/2007
“Biofuels for transport - a dangerous distraction”
Article by Dr Andrew Boswell published by Scientists for Global Responsibility, January 2007 www.sgr.org.uk
22/02/2007
“The global blueprint for a biomass economy” Report
Almuth Ernsting
20/01/2007
BIOFUELS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Agrofuels threaten to accelerate global warming
By Almuth Ernsting, Deepak Rughani and Dr Andrew Boswell
A report of critical climate change issues published for the UNFCCC conference, Bali.
Dec 2007
Biofuels – A new threat to climate and climate justice
Joint flyer for Bali
Five reasons why agrofuel expansion will make global warming worse;
Five reasons why agrofuels undermine climate justice.
Dec 2007
AVOIDED DEFORESTATION
REDD Alert
Deepak Rughani and Almuth Ernsting, published on China Dialogue
January 2008
Carbon dealers - Papua and Aceh, Aceh's and Papua's proposals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions
Marianne Klute of Watch Indonesia
September 2007
‘Reduced Emissions From Deforestation’: Can Carbon Trading Save Our Ecosystems?
Deepak Rughani and Almuth Ernsting
July 2007
AGROFUELS FROM TREES
Mountains of Paper, Mounting Injustice
Video by World Rainforest Movement about the pulp and paper industry, monoculture tree plantations and the impacts on people, environment and climate. This video focusses on excessive paper consumption, however, if agrofuels from cellulose become commercially available, large-scale expansion of such plantations is expected. To view 'Mountains of Paper, Mounting Injustice', click here.
Why Genetically Engineered Trees as Biofuels Will Not Help Stop Global Warming
The STOP GE Trees Campaign, Global justice Ecology Project.
“SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS”
The Round Table on Ir-responsible Soy - Certifying Soy Expansion, GM Soy and Agrofuels
ASEED Europe, Base Investigaciones Sociales, Corporate Europe Observatory, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Rain Forest Action Network
April 2008
Can large-scale biofuels be sustainable?
Almuth Ernsting
February 2008
How meaningful are ‘greenhouse gas standards’ for biofuels in a global market?
Almuth Ernsting
October 2007
Paving the Way for Agrofuels: EU policy, sustainability criteria and climate calculations
Joint report
September 2007
COUNTRY REPORTS
Africa
Biofuel land grabbing in Northern Ghana
April 2008
Agrofuels in Africa
Report by the African Biodiversity Network
June 2007
Soya and biofuels, Argentina
Biofuels - Case Study From Entre Rios, Argentina
Stella Semino, Lilian Joensen, Els Wijnstra, Grupo de Reflexion Rural Argentina, www.grr.org.ar
June 2007
Argentinean Soy Biofuels For The UK Fishing Fleet?
Joint report by Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina and Biofuelwatch.
April 2007
Burma
“Biofuel by Decree”
Biofuel by Decree, Report by the Ethnic Community Development Forum about Burma's diastrous campaign to plant over 3 million hectares of land with jatropha for biodiesel.
April 2008
Colombia
Report from Colombia emergency conference “Global Crisis, Human Rights and Agrofuels”
Deepak Rughani
February 2007
Ecuador
Awa people threatened by plywood companies and palm oil industry
Klaus Schenk
February 2007
Palm oil and biofuels, Indonesia
Subsistence Foods to Export Goods: The impact of an
oil palm plantation on local food sovereignty North
Barito, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Meri Orth, supported by Sawit Watch and Rumah Bumi
August 2007
Report on the practices of the world's biggest palm oil trader, Wilmar Group, in Sambas District, Indonesia
Friends of the Earth, Netherlands, Lembaga Gemawan and KONTAK Rayat Borneo
July 2007
Buyers and Financiers of the Wilmar Group
Friends of the Earth, Netherlands
July 2007
South-East Asia's peat fires and global warming
Almuth Ernsting
Last updated 06/06/2007
Expected CO2 emissions caused by producing South East Asian palm oil for biodiesel
An estimation compared with the avoided diesel emissions - based on the most recent science.
Jim Roland
16/02/2007
Report about Indonesia's biofuel developments
Business Watch Indonesia
August 2007
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Green Gold Biodiesel: Players in Indonesia
A report by Marianne Klute, Watch Indonesia, on the big companies investing in oil palm plantations in Indonesia.
24/01/2007
EU POLICY
A New Fuel Quality Directive: A new instrument for large-scale agrofuel expansion
Almuth Ernsting
October 2007
How biofuel companies are lobbying against basic environmental safeguards
An analysis of industry responses to the EU Biofuel Directive Consultation 2006
Almuth Ernsting
18/9/2006
AGROFUEL COMPANIES
For a map of all biofuel refineries in the UK, except for those that solely use waste vegetable oil, click here.
Blue-NG
Britain’s first planned vegetable oil CHP plants set to boost palm oil expansion: Click here.
Virgin Group
Factsheet about Richard Branson and the Virgin Group's biofuel investment: from palm oil and soya biodiesel in trains to synthetic biology for aviation fuels. Click here.
Greenergy/Tesco
Factsheet about Greenergy/Tesco biofuels Click here
Ensus
Factsheet about Ensus: Click here.