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Palm oil monocultures will never be sustainable
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) held its Annual General Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, between 2-4th November.
Oil Palm in Your Food: Rainforest's and Climate's Greatest Scourge
Palm oil is very likely to be found in your margarine, bread, biscuits and candy bars -- frequently listed as "vegetable oil" in the ingredients. Thirty square miles of carbon and biodiversity rich habitat are being cleared a day to provide you these products, largely in Malaysia and Indonesia, but increasingly threatening primary forests wherever they are found, including in the Amazon.
U.S. Industrial Agriculture and Biofuel/Biomass Campaign
Strategy paper: Biomass for agrofuel and biochar from increased industrial plantations is suddenly being proposed as the universal answer to our climate and energy problems. But the world's land and forests are already past their carrying capacity, and terrestrial ecosystems, upon which all life depends, are crashing.
Briefing Roundtable on Responsible Soy: Can Monoculture Soy be Responsible?
What is the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS)?
Letter of critical opposition to the “Round Table on Responsible Soy”
We, the undersigned, call for the abandonment of the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS), on the following grounds:
Declaration: ‘Biochar’, a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems
Keep ‘biochar’ and soils out of carbon trading Caution urged against proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation and soil reclamation Read the declaration, supported by more than 120 organisations from around the world.
Press Release: Biomass and Biofuels in the Renewable Energy Directive
Renewable Energy Directive agreed, EU endorses high mandatory biofuel target Climate, communities, rainforests and other ecosystems to be sacrificed In December 2008, the European Union reached an agreement on the Renewable Energy Directive. Detailed analysis of what was decided regarding biofuels and solid biomass…