Showing posts with label biofuel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biofuel. Show all posts
Friday, 8 June 2007
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Orangutans and the Bio-Fuel Boom!
A look at some of the victims of the burgeoning bio-fuel market. At a time when George Bush is pledging support for Indonesian bio-fuel production, social and environmental groups such as Wetlands International and Biofuel Watch release figures that show the use of palm oil from unsustainable conversion of natural forest can leave a carbon footprint 10 times greater than using fossil fuels. The biofuel argument begins to falter in the face of these figures. We need a 100% sign up to sustainable palm oil right now for palm oil to stop having these devastating impacts on local people, indigenous species and the world climate.
Remember if farmed properly oil palm plantations will give a net benefit to climate, especially if they are grown in degraded land that is now covered in grass and is subject to the annual burn cycle in Kalimantan.
Remember if farmed properly oil palm plantations will give a net benefit to climate, especially if they are grown in degraded land that is now covered in grass and is subject to the annual burn cycle in Kalimantan.
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