Sentences with word «agrofuels»

We campaign for proper carbon accounting, and the scrapping of targets and subsidies for agrofuels in Europe.

ADM is also the strongest promoter of agrofuels in the United States.

Growing demand for meat, animal feeds and agrofuels in Europe is contributing to the continued destruction of the Amazon and Cerrado habitats in Brazil.

This model, they said, had little interest in producing «food which is healthy, affordable and benefits people», but was rather focused «on the production of raw materials such as agrofuels, animal feeds [and] commodity plantations».

- Do not produce or promote the use of industrial agrofuels, especially those sourced from tropical ecosystems.

Africa has been hit particularly hard: over five million hectares of land — an area the size of Denmark — have been grabbed in Africa to produce agrofuels.

Activists from Plane Stupid and AAA (Action Against Agrofuels) have gate crashed Virgin Atlantic's 25th birthday party at Heathrow airport, to highlight plans to allow the aviation industry to continue to expand if it uses biofuels instead of conventional aviation fuel.

After seven years of trying, the idea that we can simply replace a significant (or even a measurable) amount of imported oil with agrofuels at prices equal to or below the price of oil has proven to be a pipe dream.

When land used for food or feed production is turned over to growing agrofuel crops for Europe, farmed land expands to fill the deficit elsewhere — often into forests and habitats in South America and Southeast Asia.

Letter challenges unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry United States — A diverse alliance of organizations published an open letter today in the U.S. and internationally warning of the dangers of industrially produced biofuels (called agrofuels by critics).

• Research and oppose bilateral and multilateral Free Trade Agreements with USA that are drivers to agrofuel expansion in some of the Latin American countries including IADB, The Integracion de la Infraestructura Regional Sudamericana and the Plan Mesoamerica.

One to one replacement of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) with fresh plant agrofuels is absolutely impossible for more than a few years.

Continuing with industrial agriculture intensified through agrofuel and biomass energy will doom humans, who are no longer integrated with ecosystems, to extinction by exhausting stocks of minerals, soils and clean water.

Biochar advocates and agrofuel associates claim that the already depleted land base and terrestrial ecosystems will provide enough biomass to become a major source of the world's heating fuel, electricity, road transport and aviation fuels — while providing enough charcoal to bury to appreciably mitigate climate change.

Europe must fully account for the greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and «indirect land use change» caused by expanding agrofuels.

Charcoal is a byproduct from a type of bioenergy production which can also be used to make second - generation agrofuels from wood, straw, and other plant fibers; and even burning toxic plastics and coal plant residues.

We call for the elimination of agrofuel targets and subsidies (for example the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive's 10 % transport targets)-- instead prioritising energy reduction in transport and food sovereignty principles.

Most agrofuel feedstocks are food commodities, and require large amounts of productive land, reducing our ability to provide for a hungry world, while feeding Europe's cars and planes.

As eight millennia of experience and the unfolding disaster of agrofuel clearly demonstrate, expansion of land - conversion by industrial agriculture strongly threatens biodiversity and ecosystems that play an essential role in stabilising and regulating the climate, and are necessary to ensure food and water security.

We are strongly urging our government to reconsider its decision of turning Malaysia into a major agrofuel producing country, as it is leading to further destruction of our forests and violations of the customary rights of indigenous peoples.»

Europe should stop its drive for agrofuels which have devastating environmental and social consequences

Food price, wildlife habitat, and water quality issues aside, the Midwest drought is demonstrating another reason why we should not become too dependent on agrofuels — price instability.

Rainforest Rescue's recent and still active U.S. agrofuel alert with Ecological Internet has already led to partial success, as the decision on whether to increase the corn ethanol blend from 10 % to 15 % has been delayed for a year.

We are beginning to see the Obama administration playing fast and loose with ecological science, letting political necessities overwhelm ecological concerns regarding corn based ethanol agrofuels.

This is wrong for so many reasons: palm oil destroys rainforests, food should not be fuel, and industrial agrofuels falsely claim to reduce carbon emissions.

Let's use this reprieve to continue organizing to resist agrofuels at the expense of food, people, ecosystems and climate.

It is highly likely this ongoing agrofuel protest was instrumental in delaying what had appeared to be certain approval for the proposal.

It shows how corporate lobbying has resulted in a combination of weak CO2 reduction measures, the dominance of carbon markets and other false solutions such as agrofuels, nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

AA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land - workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels.

A Time Magazine article late last year highlighted well Rainforest Rescue's objections to industrial agrofuels, indicating there are some hard choices to be made on ethanol by President Obama and his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Huge areas of land in poor countries are being snatched up, often by European companies, to produce agrofuels.

We coordinate four campaigns: to protect biodiversity; reform the European Union's agriculture policy; halt the growing of genetically modified crops; and prevent the expansion of agrofuels.

In the last years the WWF have initiated various round table discussions about sustainable production with the most controversial commodities at the environmental and social level, like soya, African palm oil, sugar, cotonl, aguaculture and agrofuels.

This figure is potentially much larger, with possibly 60 percent of land grabbed in Africa used for agrofuels.

Agrofuels are liquid fuels made from plant and biological material — often food crops.

«Indirect land use change» is currently ignored by the European Union when the carbon balance for agrofuels is calculated.

Our campaign aims to stop Europe's drive for agrofuels — for use in our cars, and increasingly planes and power stations.

Biochar and agrofuels are closely linked.

Agrofuels (also known as «biofuels») are putting major and growing pressure on our land, food and forests, as well as damaging both people and planet.

The boom in agrofuels is a major factor increasing both food prices and price volatility — driven by political targets like the European Union's target for 10 % of transport energy from renewable sources by 2020.

Agrofuels» «green» image is a myth: there is clear evidence that agrofuels result in higher carbon emissions than normal petrol and diesel.

Meena Raman, head of Friends of the Earth Malaysia, said «Agrofuels is a disaster in the making.

Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns to stop Europe's drive for agrofuels, and expose their real social and environmental costs.

Agrofuels are worsening climate change, threatening people's food security, driving land grabs, and destroying forests and other crucial ecosystems.

Some groups (mainly big agro-business companies) were not happy with the Commission's findings that a push for agrofuels will actually increase emissions as opposed to reduce them and help decarbonize the transportation sector, so they decided to attack and question the science behind iLUC to slow down the process and further discussions on the topic.

These measures must be urgently carried out without resorting to false solutions such as agrofuels and risky technology such as nuclear power.»