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How the palm oil industry is Cooking the Climate
Every year, 1.8 billion tonnes (Gt) of climate changing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are released by the degradation and burning of Indonesia’s peatlands – 4% of global GHG emissions from less than 0.1% of the land on earth.
This report shows how, through growing demand for palm oil, the world’s largest food, cosmetic and biofuel industries are driving the wholesale destruction of peatlands and rainforests. These companies include Unilever, Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, who between them account for a significant volume of global palm oil use, mainly from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Von Greenpeace International

New Study Slams Corn Ethanol

Climate Change: How Adapting to Warming Could Make It Worse

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/08/05/climate-change-how-adapting-to-warming-could-make-it-worse/?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0vr2N8rH0

"Wie Unilevers Palmöl-Lieferanten Borneo abbrennen" (englisch)

How Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers are Burning Up Borneo
New evidence shows expansion by Unilever palm oil suppliers is driving species extinction in Central Kalimantan, and fuelling climate change.
Ausfürhlicher Bericht von Greenpeace International

Agrofuels and the use of Genetic Modification

GeneWatch UK published a new report exploring the use of genetic technologies for the production of agrofuels (industrial-scale biofuels). The report questions whether the substantial investment being made in a new generation of agrofuels, often being developed using genetically-modified (GM) organisms and new GM crops, will solve the problems now acknowledged with the current generation.

Biosprit verschärft das Klimaproblem, den Welthunger und den Artenverlust

UPI - Umwelt- und Prognose-Institut
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Carbon Trade Watch

informative Studien zu verschiedenen Themen

E85 produziert mehr bodennahes Ozon als Benzin (SB)

Umweltverträglichkeit von Agrotreibstoffen erneut in Frage gestellt

Die Ersatzstoffe für Benzin und Diesel, mit denen die industriegestützte Wirtschaft im auslaufenden Erdölzeitalter und darüber hinaus weiterbetreiben werden soll, erweisen sich häufig als nicht weniger umweltschädlich als fossile Brennstoffe. Einer neuen Studie zufolge wird bei der Verbrennung von Ethanol verstärkt gesundheitsschädliches Ozon erzeugt. Während das aus drei Sauerstoffatomen aufgebaute Ozon in der oberen Atmosphäre die harte UV-Strahlung weitgehend aufhält und als nützlich anzusehen ist, führt das auch als Reizgas bezeichnete Ozon in Bodennähe zu erheblichen Gesundheitsproblemen.

Fischerei und Artenschutz Fragwürdiges Ökosiegel

Der Marine Stewardship Council soll nachhaltige Fischerei gewährleisten. Doch ihre Entscheidungen bringen die Organisation nun in wissenschaftlichen Misskredit.

FSC-Zertifikate für Baumplantagen in Thailand und Brasilien (englischer Bericht)

Certifying the Uncertifiable (also available in Portuguese and Spanish)
FSC Certification of Tree Plantations in Thailand and Brazil
World Rainforest Movement - August 2003
Concern over the spread of tree monocultures and their certification is at the centre of this book. However, this concern is merely one part of much broader concerns concerning forests, forest peoples’ livelihoods and communities of living things.
By documenting and analysing the problem, this book, it is hoped, will help convince FSC that much needs to be changed in its approach to the certification of plantations.

Global Biodiversity Outlook 3

Global Biodiversity Outlook is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Drawing on a range of information sources, including National Reports, biodiversity indicators information, scientific literature, and a study assessing biodiversity scenarios for the future [4MB], the third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) summarizes the latest data on status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions for the future strategy of the Convention.

GRAIN: Agrartreibstoffe a.k.a. Biotreibstoffe (englisch)

GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focusses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels* - over 30,000 words of indepth analysis from around the world.
In the process of gathering material from colleagues and social movements around the world, we have discovered that the stampede into agrofuels is causing enormous environmental and social damage, much more than we realised earlier. Precious ecosystems are being destroyed and hundreds of thousands of indigenous and peasant communities are being thrown off their land.
This page (www.grain.org/agrofuels/) will provide a continued resource for documents, links and updates on the issues around agrofuels. To find out more follow the links on the right hand side of this page and below.

Jatropha Reality Check

The findings of the "Jatropha Reality Check" report include:

1) There are many media claims about the high production potential of jatropha, but these are rarely referenced or verified.

2) A study of hundreds of Jatropha farmers in Kenya shows low yields

3) Uneconomical costs of production

4) Jatropha requires significant rainfall or irrigation, and does not perform well in dry zones.

5) Jatropha is susceptible to many pests and diseases, contrary to claims.

5) The only way that Jatropha makes economic sense is as a fence, which is how it has been traditionally grown in Africa.

The report recommends that "all stakeholders carefully reevaluate their current activities promoting Jatropha as a promising bioenergy feedstock. We also suggest that all public and private sector actors for the time being cease promoting the crop among smallholder farmers for any plantation other than as a fence."

Kritische Analyse von FSC-Zertifikaten bei industrailisierten Monokulturen in Uruguay

Greenwash: Critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay - by Ricardo Carrere
Vom World Rainforest Movement

Land grabbing: is the EU the largest net importer of agricultural produce and ‘virtual’ land?

The independent Research Centre OPERA* presented (Tuesday 11th May 2010) in Brussels, a new research report that warns that the European Union must encourage agricultural innovation and productivity increases to avoid charges of territorial ‘land grabbing.’

Logging Liberia

The Role Of Liberia's Logging Industry
on National And Regional Insecurity

by Global Wittness

Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch Forstwirtschaft in Amazonien? : geographische Evaluierungen des Forest Stewardship Council

von Laschefski, Klemens über die Firma Precious Woods

zusammengefasst:
http://www.wald.org/fscamaz/ecol_deu.htm

Auf englisch

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1352/ecologist/Saving%20the%20wood.doc

Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel. Colonization Lives On

WRM (World Rainforest Movement) hat ein weiteres, englischssprachiges Buch zum Thema Ölpalmplantagen herausgebracht:
"Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel. Colonization Lives On"

Palm Oil and Land Acquisition in Indonesia

Promised Land
Palm Oil and Land Acquisition in Indonesia:
Implications for Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples
"Biodiesel" is fuelling fast expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The study "Promised Land" examines the laws which regulate land acquisition for plantations and how these laws actually are applied. "Promised Land" finds that indigenous peoples are deprived of their heritage - their lands, forests, livelihood and cultures. Palm oil plantations already cover over six million hectares of land - most the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples. Plans now envisage the clearance of further 20 million hectares.
By Sawit Watch, World Agroforestry Center, HUMA and Forest Peoples Programme
Dec. 2005

Palmöl bald Bedrohung für brasilianischen Amazonas-Regenwald?

SE Asian palm oil can be expected to cause 2x-8x the emissions of the fossil fuel

Calculation of how SE Asian palm oil can be expected to cause 2x-8x the emissions of the fossil fuel it replaces now published at http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/resources.php#calc2

Socio-economic dynamics of biofuel development in Asia Pacific

Sozial-ökologische Bewertung der stationären energetischen Nutzung von importierten Biokraftstoffen am Beispiel von Palmöl

Diese im Auftrag des Bundesumweltministeriums erstellte Studie untersucht die Eigenschaften und energetischen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten von Palmöl sowie dessen ökologische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Auswirkungen. Sie beantwortet Fragen nach den Klimaeffekten und sonstigen Umweltwirkungen und liefert Hinweise zur ökologischen Optimierung. Schließlich werden die EU- und WTO-rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen analysiert, die bei der Regulierung des energetischen Einsatzes importierten Palmöls zu beachten sind.

Staatliche Seite zu gefährdeten Tier- und Pfanzenarten

Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Survival International report highlights biofuels threat to indigenous peoples

The most inconvenient truth of all: climate change and indigenous people

Touching the Sky: Human Rights Violation and Land Right Conflicts around Bakrie Sumatera's Plantations

The first chapter looks at "Bakrie and the attack on the village of Sei Kopas", the second one at the "Lapindo mud volcano in Sidoarjo". Lapindo belonged to the Bakrie Group at the time the mud volcano disaster began. This is followed by an overview of the Bakrie Group and of their oil palm plantations.

UNEP: The last stand of the Orang Utan (englisch)

The last stand of the Orang Utan
State of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia's national parks of the Orang Utan
Vom United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Vandana Shiva zu Jatropha und Biofuels in Indien

Welt im Wandel - Zukunftsfähige Bioenergie und nachhaltige Landnutzung (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen)

Die zentrale Botschaft des WBGU lautet, dass die weltweit vorhandenen nachhaltigen Potenziale der Bioenergie genutzt werden sollten, solange Gefährdungen der Nachhaltigkeit ausgeschlossen werden können, insbesondere der Ernährungssicherheit sowie der Ziele von Natur- und Klimaschutz.

Weltbevölkerungsbericht

Berichte zur Weltbevölkerung (jährlich)

WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY: THE GREEN LIE