In Bonn met world leaders at the UN Conference on Biodiversity. As we here at The Green Blog world’s biodiversity is seriously threatened due to human action, and that is why the Alliance for the Convention on Biological Diversity called for a total ban on crops for production of biofuels.
The Alliance includes more than 100 environmental groups, they contend that the production of these fuels, including so-called ’second generation’, “exacerbating the food crisis and competition for land and water.” And as if that were not enough, and that is becoming all the agricultural land of many nations only intended for biofuels crops, there are signs of indiscriminate felling of forests for more crop fields.
Martin Kaiser, CEO of Greenpeace Germany, said it is a terrible lie that biofuels will help in the fight against climate change, should be buried, he said, programs that seek to reduce carbon dioxide emissions via biofuels.
The claims call “to end the perverse incentives that lead to deforestation”, “fighting the indiscriminate felling of forests” and “adopt criteria for the protection of offshore marine areas.”
On Friday 30th, the topic of biofuels in the conference, and there would argue the 189 countries that form part of the effort to halt biodiversity loss by 2010.
