Climate Change - The True Cost of Biofuels: Science Snapshot

Major findings of The Nature Conservancy/University of Minnesota study on land clearing and the biofuel “carbon debt” include:

* Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a ‘biofuel carbon debt’ by releasing 17 to 420 times more carbon dioxide than the fossil fuels they replace.

* Converting lowland tropical rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia to palm biodiesel would result in a biofuel carbon dept that would take approximately 86 years to repay.

Climate Change - The True Cost of Biofuels: Science Snapshot

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