Sentences with phrase «to grow biofuel crops»

However, an equivalent amount is lost through logging, clearing of land for grazing, and growing biofuel crops such as palm oil, soya bean and sugar.

(08/15/2007) Conserving forests and grasslands may be a more effective land - use strategy for fighting climate change than growing biofuel crops argues a new paper published in the journal Science.

The author, and everyone else, has missed some basic economic arguments regarding the problems with growing biofuel crops, problems that exist for both invasive and non-invasive plants, food crops and non-food crops.

With governments offering subsidies for growing biofuel crops the question is, how do we stop people from draining the world's remaining wetlands?»

BRDI also found that growing biofuel crops efficiently in the United States would require shifts in the intensity of use of about 5 % of pasture lands to more intensive hay, forage, and bioenergy crops (25 million out of 456 million acres) in order to accommodate dedicated energy crops, along with using a combination of wastes, forest residues, and crop residues.

Many scientists and policymakers are advocating increased incentives for preserving tropical forests, especially in the face of demand for clearing forest to grow biofuel crops such as soy.

Conservation more effective than biofuels for fighting global warming (8/15/2007) Conserving forests and grasslands may be a more effective land - use strategy for fighting climate change than growing biofuel crops argues a new paper published in the journal Science.

«The sustainability question is largely about the impact of using millions of acres of U.S. land to grow biofuel crops,» Robertson said.

When land used for food or feed production is turned over to growing biofuel crops, agriculture has to expand elsewhere.

Harm down to nature by the destruction of tropical rain forests to grow biofuel crops and to the thousands if not millions of birds and bats killed by Wind Turbines.

Avoids food versus fuel: Doesn't require land to grow biofuel crops, preventing food vs. fuel conflicts.

«Cutting down rainforests to grow biofuel crops will likely never be a winning proposition for climate change or the environment, even considering projected improvements in agricultural and energy technology,» said Gibbs, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and lead author of the study.

The price rises are a result of record oil prices, US farmers switching out of cereals to grow biofuel crops, extreme weather and growing demand from countries India and China, the UN said yesterday.

If the price of oil rises further it will make fertilisers and transport more expensive, and at the same time make it more profitable to grow biofuel crops.