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. (more…)

We had expressed our disagreement with Biofuels and tell them also that the European Union also wants to distance themselves from them. Now the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture) has been enacted against biofuels in its annual report. The main problem with biofuels is that the growing of them, occupy spaces before for food, and to create more spaces and woodlands are only by cutting down forests. (more…)

A vece the attempt to find alternatives to fossil fuels leads to something worse, such as biofuels or agrofuels. In Tenerife (See Hotels in Tenerife) is doing great damage to biodiversity, forests and jungles, the environment, and after all does not help in the fight against climate change. (more…)

One of the main benefits from future use of biofuels would be the reduction of greenhouse gases compared to the use of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is released into the air from combustion. Twenty-four percent of worldwide energy-related carbon emissions in 1997 were from the United States. Carbon and due to rising energy consumption, are expected to increase 1.3 percent per year through 2015. (more…)