Agricultural Biodiversity // Biofuels and biodiversity - additional resources

Thursday // 3.19.2009

Biofuels and biodiversity - additional resources

In accordance with decision IX/2 on agricultural biodiversity: biofuels and biodiversity the Executive Secretary issued notification 2008-100 requesting for submissions of information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels. Please find below references to the submissions received:

Biocombustibles - Revista Virtual Redesma para la Red de Desarrollo Sostenible y Medio Ambiente (in Spanish)
Training Tool on Palm Oil and Peatlands developed by Wetlands International
Transgenics are imperative for biofuel crops - review by Jonathan Gressel in Plant Science
Special issue on biofuels of the International Mire Conservation Group newsletter
How the emergence of biofuels challenges environmental conservation - comment by Tobias Plieninger in Environmental Conservation
Organic Agriculture and the Impact of Agrofuels - information leaflet from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
Criteria for a Sustainable Use of Bioenergy on a Global Scale - Research Report prepared by the Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg, Germany on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency
Version Zero of the principles and criteria for sustainable biofuels prepared by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
Biofuels - 50 questions and answers about this new market prepared by the Petróleo Brasileira S.A. - Petrobras
How Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers Are Burning Up Borneo prepared by the Greenpeace UK - also available as HTML version
How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate prepared by the Greenpeace
The Hidden Carbon Liability of Indonesian Palm Oil prepared by the Greenpeace
Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Policies - Policy Brief prepared by the International Risk Governance Council
Large scale bio-fuel production may increase marginalization of women - Case study from Zimbabwe based on a UNDP/GEF Small Grants Project
Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy for Biodiversity and Climate - contributed paper by Finn Danielsen and co-authors in Conservation Biology
Biofuels, food security and compensatory subsidies - paper from the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics of the University of São Paulo (CEPEA-ESALQ/USP)
Presentations on the consequences of bioenergy policies, its impacts on deadwood, and sustainability impact assessment approaches, provided by Marcus Lindner from the European Forest Institute
Sustainability Standards for Bioenergy published by WWF Germany
Criteria for Assessing Environmental, Economic, and Social Aspects of Biofuels in Developing Countries prepared by the Öko-Institut
Impacts of biofuel production on biodversity in Europe published by the European Centre for Nature Conservation