Sentences with phrase «energy plantation»

«At least if a community decides to build a solar or wind energy plantation, you're taking responsibility of the impacts within your own region,» he said.

«You are growing wood or grasses in a renewable way in some sort of energy plantation to produce biomass,» he says.

To meet the demands of growing consumption, a larger share of the global surface is being used for agriculture, livestock, forestry, energy plantations and infrastructure.

However, it may also lead to land disputes and human rights abuses, particularly when large energy plantations are involved.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol offers incentives for establishing energy plantations and financing sustainable biofuel use.

Not exact matches

GLAM's Australian agribusiness portfolio includes Riverina Oils & Bio Energy, which is the country's second biggest oilseed crushing and refining operation, and TreeTops Plantations, Australia's largest table olive plantation with 120,000 olive trees.

Recognize that the transition to renewable energy does not justify or require a massive increase in mega hydro dams, biofuels and major monoculture biomass plantations that cause displacement, food insecurity, human rights abuses and deforestation;

There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.

The island of Nusa Penida which is recently dubbed as renewable energy park offers not just sites of eco-friendly electric plantation for the visitors.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

In addition to the energy crops discussed in Chapter 2, these include forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, urban waste, livestock waste, plantations of fast - growing trees, crop residues, and urban tree and yard wastes — all of which can be used for electrical generation, heating, or the production of automotive fuels.

The Australian Government's Mandatory Renewable Energy Target, which seeks to create a market for renewable energy, provides incentives for the development of renewable energy from plantations and wood waste (Government of Australia, Energy Target, which seeks to create a market for renewable energy, provides incentives for the development of renewable energy from plantations and wood waste (Government of Australia, energy, provides incentives for the development of renewable energy from plantations and wood waste (Government of Australia, energy from plantations and wood waste (Government of Australia, 2006).

High - productivity plantations, efficient harvesting and good logistics are fundamental in producing biomass at costs that allow for competitively priced energy generation.

In many countries, the use of agricultural and forest residues could significantly reduce land requirements for biofuel production, thereby reducing the social and environmental impacts of energy crop plantations.

This includes the development of appropriate genetic material for local conditions and advanced technology for silviculture, plantation management, harvesting, transportation and energy conversion.

Changes in energy prices may render woodfuel plantations for energy unviable, and consequently of no market value.

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests for farms, plantations, and ranches.

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests into farms, plantations, and ranches.

Reasonable questions are being raised regarding the sustainability of corn - based ethanol, and even 2nd generation industrial plantation based biofuel and biochar production; given finite land, fertilizers and water, and in the face of exponential increases in population and demand for energy.

Biomass for agrofuel and biochar from increased industrial plantations is suddenly being proposed as the universal answer to our climate and energy problems.

Armistead's small studio is powered by Portland's PGE renewable energy program, and the table is available in plantation eucalyptus, local Northwest FSC - certified red alder, as well as locally - harvested black walnut.

Helpful to a limited extent, as the energy returned is good for energy invested, BUT the developed world is driving up the price of cooking oil for the poorer countries by using food crops for biofuel and by folks putting palm plantations in places that could be growing food.

Apart from singling out Mission New Energy and GEM Biofuels as doing Jatropha right, Biofuels Digest is catalogues a series of failures, mis - starts and unmet promises: China and Myanmar Plans Languish Though a bit over a year ago China announced that it would be putting 13 million hectares of land under Jatropha cultivation, to date «a handful» of these plantations actually exist.

All wood used is sustainable new - growth from managed and responsible plantations - Fully RoHS compliant - Energy - efficient Class D amplifier, consumes between 50 and 90 % less power than a standard Class B amplifier.

Unfortunately, the expansion of the cane plantations has impacted environmental quality, and in order to meet future energy demands further expansion into wilderness areas will be needed.

The city on a site of 1x1x0.5 km is terraced to offer sufficient space naturally lit for the needed plantation and energy production.

What distinguishes this book from others on the topic is MacKay's insistence on using numbers rather than adjectives to delineate the problem, leading to conclusions such as: «To provide one quarter of [the U.K.] current energy consumption by growing energy crops, for example, would require 75 % of Britain to be covered with biomass plantations.»