Intranet Project Briefing

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7/05 TABLE RONDE Agro- carburants, quelles
conditions?
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Biomasse ? biomasse
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GP Position on GHG-calculation method

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• Displacement effects (leakage) must be included
  in calculation
• Initial CO2-emissions from land-use change must
  be distributed over max 10 years
• N-fertilizer use must be integrated in
  calculation (N2O 296 keer krachtiger dan CO2).
  Uncertainties exist cf. Crutzen et al.
• ? Intergov. Panel needed to develop tool

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GP position on other criteria

• Impact on biodiversity (flora and fauna)?
• Sust Agriculture minimal use of agrochemicals,
  water and soil conservation, sustainable
  harvesting, no GMO's (!)?
• Social criteria should be included (food
  security, no undermining of livelihoods and land
  rights,...)?

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Criteria Certification

• criteria alone can never guarantee total
  sustainability
• Limitations (e.g. Macro-economic effects)?
• Criteria is only a first step, certification,
  accredition and monitoring are equally important
• ? if not able to control certain products should
  be excluded

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ex. RSPO

• GP reports World's largest food, cosmetic and
  biofuel companies are driving destruction of
  Indonesia's reinforests and peatlands through
  growing palmoil consumption (RSPO members)?
• UNEP palmoil plantations major cause of
  deforestation in Indonesia.
• Unilever
• President of RSPO
• RSPO Criteria not strict enough
• Failing to apply and enforce RSPO prinicples and
  criteria

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Conclusion

• Real solution is an energy revolution (energy
  efficiency)?

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conclusion

• First generation very problematic from a climate
  point of view and from an ethical point of view.
  Proposed sust. Criteria do not provide a good
  enough answer
• ? drop the 10 (UN, EEA,...) / support
  moratorium until real sust criteria for ALL
  biomass are developped.
• Second generation (algae, cellulose ethanol,
  PPO) invest in RD positive perspectives BUT
  not without risks either (GE,...).

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literature

• MNP (Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency, Local
  and globa consequences of the EU renewable
  directive for biofuels, Bilthoven, March 2008)?
• Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases
  Greenhouse Gases through Emissions from Land Use
  Change. Timothy Searchinger et al.,
  Science,February 2008
• Joint Research Centre of the European
  Commission, Biofuels in the Europeancontext
  facts, uncertainties and recommendations. JRC
  Working Paper,
• OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development,
  Biofuels is the cure worse than the disease?
  Richard Doornbosch and Ronald Steenblik, Paris,
  September 2007

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Merci! karen.Janssens_at_be.greenpeace.org