About: ethanol Archives
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Biofuels honesty is in the eye of the beholder
Biofuels industry attacks on the scientific rigour and methodology of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) are unfair and fall wide of the mark, writes Peter Wooders.
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Why doesn’t the ethanol lobby join the fight for cleaner fuels?
The bioethanol industry should stop defending wasteful public subsidies and join forces with NGOs to fight for the full carbon accounting which it says would vindicate its environmental record, argues Jos Dings.
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Take an honest look at ethanol!
The International Institute of Sustainable Development's admission of an error in their recent study of public subsidies to biofuels is part of a systematic pattern of NGO bias, argues Rob Vierhout. It is time to look again at the social, security and environmental benefits of ethanol, he says.
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For science’s sake, the EU must legislate on biofuels land use change
On 11th July, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of accounting for scientifically proven ‘indirect emissions’ (known as ILUC) from European biofuels. This type of accounting is the best available option to reduce negative climate impacts from biofuels, says Chris Malins.
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The European Parliament is making a bad biofuels proposal worse
The European Parliament wants to reinforce the principle of discrimination in the EU’s draft biofuels directive, setting Europe on a collision course with its obligations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), writes Fredrik Erixon.
