Bio-fuel sounds cool right? But what it means in developing world is cutting down forests and displace indigenous peoples to plant gazillions of acres of GM soya and palm oil. Climate gets worse, potential for unleashing untold unforeseen disasters is increased.
Action: Multi-million UN carbon credits for agrofuels threaten climate, forests and people A UN board has decided that soya, palm oil and other agrofuel plantations can now receive carbon credits through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The agrofuel industry, already boosted by EU and US targets, incentives and subsidies, can now look forward to hundreds of millions of extra subsidies. Please sign a letter to protest against this decision, which will cause more climate change, more deforestation, more land-grabbing, more water depletion and environmental contamination and more hunger. (Start: 11.12.2009)
|
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment