Growing pains: the possibilities and problems of biofuels |
Aug 2009
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What contribution can biofuels make to a low-carbon future? And how can that contribution be made to work best for poor people?
This report aims to answer these questions by analysing the impact of the current approach to biofuels and setting out the basics of what an approach that has poor people at its heart might look like. It will examine the types of biofuels that have come to dominate and summarize the latest scientific evidence on the carbon savings offered by such biofuels. It will then go on to cover the problems and benefits of some biofuels that Christian Aid partners and researchers from Latin America and Africa have documented. The implications of land-use issues around biofuels are examined in more detail before setting out Christian Aid’s conclusions about the potential of biofuels.
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