World market prices of fossil fuels will simply be lower than they otherwise would be such that total consumption of fossil and bio fuels rises by the extra production of bio fuel.

The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains. So, taking land for the production of bio fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.

Bio fuel subsidies, which have encouraged the shift of land from producing food into energy, must be repealed.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels is an international initiative which brings together farmers, companies, governments, non governmental organizations, and scientists who are interested in the sustainability of biofuels production and distribution.

Biofuel production shall not violate human rights or labor rights, and shall ensure decent work and the well being of workers.

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Only producing bio fuels without the use of additional land is justifiable in terms of environmental and social policy.

The biofuel lesson is salutary.

Renewable energies include biomass for fuel (wood and straw), biogas, biofuel (bioethanol and biodiesel), electricity cogenerated from sugar cane, solar energy, wind energy, thermal hydroelectricity, and fuel cells.

The problem is that advocates of reducing the greenhouse effect by promoting bio fuels production have not made clear where the land will come from.

But official encouragement of production of bio fuels on land that would have been used for other purposes must stop.

In 2007 and 2008, the swift increase in biofuel production caused a food crisis that incited political instability and fueled malnutrition.

Indeed, food prices are currently increasing in Europe, because more and more farmland is being used for bio fuels instead of for food production.

Whoever wishes to grow bio fuels on land that was previously used for food production must recognize that this would increase food prices, harming the poorest of the poor.

EU countries subsidized bio fuels production with 3.7 billion in 2006, and intend to cover 8 of their motor fuels from biological sources by 2015 and 20 by 2020.

In October 2008, Peter Brabeck Letmathe, chairman and former chief executive of Nestlé, warned that the production of biofuels will further deplete the world's water supply.

To be sure, in addition to the negative storage effect, there might be a positive effect on the world climate insofar as bio fuels may replace fossil fuels for combustion processes.

Biofuels have become an almost unstoppable and unmitigated disaster.

Bio fuels essentially take food from mouths and puts it into cars.

That option should be supported. But official encouragement of production of bio fuels on land that would have been used for other purposes must stop.

Rather than acknowledge that high fuel prices are the best way to inspire energy conservation and innovation, the Bush administration has instituted huge subsidies to American farmers to grow grains for bio fuel production.

Schwarzenegger has adapted one of his Hummers to run on hydrogen and another to run on biofuels.

Some bio fuels are far more cost effective and energy efficient than others, and different bio fuel stocks have very different opportunity costs for food agriculture (sugar has not experienced any significant price increase).

The Kyoto Protocol allows countries to meet their target reductions of CO2 emissions by substituting bio fuels for fossil fuels.

Brazil s bio fuels sector has been creating nearly a million jobs a year.

Similarly, to cultivate bio fuels on land that would otherwise be used to produce sustainable construction materials would drive up the prices of these materials and encourage their substitution by non sustainable materials like concrete and steel.

Several factors contributed to the crisis, including high oil prices, high demand for crops from the bio fuel sector, falling global stockpiles of food commodities, and lower cereal production.

It makes no sense to use land in whatever form to produce bio fuels.

Ten years ago, the EU and the US embraced biofuels as a way to combat global warming.

In 2007 and 2008, the swift increase in biofuel production caused a food crisis that incited political instability and fueled malnutrition. Developed countries did not learn.

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

Biofuels reduce emissions by only ten Mt, and solar panels by a paltry three Mt.

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

And, with the rise of biofuels, the food and energy markets have become integrated.

They are willing and able to produce biofuels and have the potential to produce much more than what they are already producing.

Carbon emissions can be reduced through increasing the use of wood (which is a renewable resource), either for durable wood products or for biofuel, in place of fossil fuels.

But this assumes that the oil sheikhs will extract less oil because there is more bio fuel.

Colombia has now become the largest palm oil producer in the Americas, and 35 of its product is exported as biofuel.

There is a lack of understanding and awareness among the general public about renewable opportunities arising from biomass, heat and biofuels.

But is it really a wise and ethically acceptable strategy to burn food rather than eat it? If we allow food to be used to produce bio fuels, food prices will be linked to the oil price, as the head of the German farmers association happily announced.

The perversity of the first alternative is obvious there is no surplus food production in the world.

Because increased demand for bio fuels leads to cutting down carbon rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them.

It was the start of a season long television marketing campaign to sell the merits of biofuel to Americans.

Biofuel targets set in the European Union, the United States, and China generate a land grab in Mozambique, Colombia, and Cambodia.

Government support of rapid growth in biofuel production has contributed to disarray in food production.