Posted on September 18, 2018
Our partner organization, Biofuelwatch, has published its new in-depth report, “Dead End Road” on cellulosic biofuels, with an in-depth look at each of the commercial-scale facilities worldwide claimed to have been commissioned or operational since 2010. See this Executive… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News, Uncategorized Tags: biofuel, Biofuelwatch, cellulose, dead end road
Posted on June 14, 2018
This week, Global Justice Ecology Project executive director Anne Petermann’s regular Earth Minute segment on the Sojourner Truth radio show focused on an open letter sent from 89 organizations from 34 countries to end plans promoting biofuels and carbon offsets… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Social Media News Tags: air travel, airplane, biofuel, earth minute, kpfk, palm oil, sojourner truth
Posted on June 11, 2018
By Biofuelwatch.org.uk 80 organisations from 35 countries have called on the UN’s International Civil Aviation Agency (ICAO) to ditch plans for aviation biofuels and carbon offsets, as the Agency’s governing body convenes in Montreal to finalize proposals… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: biofuel, Biofuelwatch, carbon offsets, CORSIA, ICAO
Posted on November 6, 2017
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project executive director, spoke about how an increase in air traffic relates to climate change for her Earth Minute feature for the Nov. 1 edition of the Sojourner Truth Show. Petermann points out… Read More
Posted on October 12, 2017
On 6th October, Biofuelwatch published its report “Aviation biofuels: How ICAO and industry plans for ‘sustainable alternative aviation fuels’ could lead to planes flying on palm oil”. During this webinar, report author Almuth Ernsting will present the key… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: almuth ernsting, Alternative Fuels for Aviation, biofuel, Biofuelwatch, ICAO
Posted on October 11, 2017
An in-depth report released by Biofuelwatch last week shows that feedstocks (raw materials used to produce biofuel) other than palm oil cannot be converted to aviation fuels on a large scale either because of technical obstacles, or for… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: biofuel, Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, palm oil, Paris Agreement
Posted on September 26, 2017
SAN DIEGO, C.A. – As the Bio-Based Live Americas conference meets today to discuss topics including industrial scale production of biofuels and chemicals via genetically engineered (GE) microorganisms such as GE algae, a new report suggests that these organisms pose… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Featured, New and Emerging Technologies, Social Media News Tags: algae, biofuel, Friends of the Earth U.S., smolker
Posted on June 1, 2017
Via Biofuelwatch.org.uk: “Biotechnology for Biofuels” includes in-depth investigations of three biofuel companies – Algenol, Mascoma, and Solazyme/TerraVia, and will be updated with forthcoming reports on algal and ligno-cellulosic biofuels, followed by further materials. Policy-makers and industry leaders… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Featured, Social Media News Tags: algaw, bioeconomy, biofuel, Biofuelwatch, cellulose, wood
Posted on April 15, 2016
Via Rainforest-Rescue.org: Indonesian activists are sounding the alarm: “The only group that will benefit from this policy are private palm oil companies,” explains Zenzi Suhadi, a campaigner for the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi). “With this biofuel… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Social Media News Tags: biofuel, carbon emissions, Indonesia, palm oil
Posted on January 7, 2016
By Rachel Smolker Originally published on The Huffington Post. For years we have been told that corn ethanol was a “bridge” to more advanced biofuels that would be better for the environment. Similarly, we were sold the bill… Read More
Category: Social Media News Tags: biofuel, biomass, bridge, california, diesel, energy independence and security act, EPA, ethanol, gas leak, oglalla, rachel smolker
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