Despite their positioning as a green alternative, experts warn biofuels expansion could have catastrophic consequences.

The governments of Brazil, Italy, Japan, and India are spearheading a new pledge calling for the rapid global expansion of biofuels as a commitment to decarbonizing transportation energy.

An analysis by a clean transport advocacy organization published last month found that, because of the indirect impacts to farming and land use, biofuels are responsible globally for 16 percent more CO2 emissions than the planet-polluting fossil fuels they replace

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    1·
    12 days ago

    How it started:

    Let’s try and at least pretend we’re saving some of the planet?

    How it’s going:

    Wanna get high?