Report: Biofuel is a twin-edged catastrophe
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08. nov 2010 KL. 10.39
Translation by Autumnson Blog
Tortillas and biofuel from maize. Archive. - Foto: GREGORY BULL/AP玉米餅和生物燃料均來自玉米。 存檔.- 照片：格雷戈里公牛/美聯社
A new report says biofuel causes hunger and harms the environment twice as much as current fuel forms.
一份新報告說，生物燃料導致飢餓和危害環境，兩倍於目前的燃料形式。
A fresh report from the Danish Actionaid Denmark, Greenpeace and Noah organisations among others suggests that biofuel produced from maize or palm kernels causes two-and-a-half times as much CO2 emissions as traditional fuel.
一份來自丹麥行動援助的新報告，綠色和平和挪亞等組織在其中提出，生產自玉米或棕櫚仁的生物燃料導致傳統燃料的兩倍半二氧化碳排放量。
The report, entitled “Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels in the EU“, says that increased greenhouse emissions will be the equivalent of an increase of between 12 and 26 million vehicles and mean between 81 percent and 167 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels.
報告題為“預料的間接土地使用變化引起在歐盟的擴大使用生物燃料”，說增加的溫室氣體排放量將是相當於增加的千二至二千六萬車，和意味比化石燃料有81%和167%之間更多的溫室氣體排放。
Palm kernels - another source of biofuel.棕櫚仁 - 另一種生物燃料的來源。
“The result is that the EU’s policy takes food out of the mouths of the world’s starving and puts it in European petrol tanks..... It affects many more than the 925 million people who go to bed hungry each day,” says Actionaid Denmark Chairwoman Trine Pertou Mach.
“結果是歐盟的政策會，從世界飢餓的人口中取去食物，並把它放在歐洲的汽油箱.....每天它影響許多，超過 9.25億上床餓著肚子的人，“丹麥行動援助女主席特麗 Pertou馬赫說。
The EU has decided in its EU renewable energy Directive that over the next decade, the use of biofuel in fuel consumption should increase. The report, however, says that conventional rather than advanced forms of biofuel are envisaged in national plans.
If greenhouse gases from biofuel production are included, emissions in 2020 will have increased from 27 million to 56 million tonnes of CO2 each year, the report says.
“Danish politicians have repeatedly claimed that the existing problems with biofuel use will be eliminated if so-called sustainable biofuels are used. It is now clear that you can’t produce sustainable biofuel on a large scale,” says NOAH Spokeswoman Bente Hessellund and calls on politicians to drop biofuel targets.
The new report has looked at the types and amounts of biofuel that the EU countries themselves have said that they will use, and includes issues such as logging and the displacement of traditional crops in fields to grow biofuel crops.
According to the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), displaced crops will be grown elsewhere, causing new and hitherto unused areas to be brought into arable cultivation.
The report says that the EU’s increased use of biofuel means that the use of some 69,000 square kilometres will be changed to grow biofuel crops.
The Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels in the EU report was produced by the IEEP and at the request of ActionAid, BirdLife International, ClientEarth, European Environmental Bureau, FERN, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, Transport & Environment and Wetlands International.
The IEEP is an independent, non-profit institute for policy analysis, development and dissemination.
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1103875/report-biofuel-is-a-two-edged-catastrophe/
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