TAILIEUCHUNG - WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY: THE GREEN LIE

Le Centre de Développement des Ressources de la Terre (l'un des organismes scientifiques de l'Administration Britannique de Développement Outremer) apporte son aide aux pays en voie de développement en matière de cartographie, recherche et evaluation des ressources de la terre et fourni t des recommandations quant ä l'exploitation de ces ressources pour le développement de l'agriculture, l'élevage et la sylviculture. Le Centre offre également des conseilles techniques aux gouvernements et organismes outremer, se charge de trouver du personnel scientifique pour les postes a pourvoir ä l'étranger . | WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY THE GREEN LIE May The impact of wood-based bio-energy on 2010 forests and forest dependent people Wood-based bioenergy the green lie Wood based bioenergy the green lie THE IMPACT OF WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY ON FORESTS AND FOREST DEPENDENT PEOPLE CONTENTS Introduction Fiu Elisara Mata ese Chair Board GFC Samoa 2 Plantation expansion and forest degradation for wood bioenergy in Europe Almuth Ernsting Biofuelwatch UK 4 Liberian biomass project 12 Genetically modified trees bioenergy and REDD New excuses for their promotion Diego Alejandro Cardona Colombia 13 Tree plantations are no forests Wally Menne Timberwatch South Africa 22 1 Wood-based bioenergy the green lie Introduction By Fiu Elisara Mata ese Chair of the Board Global Forest Coalition The European Union EU recently admitted that agro-fuels might be as much as four times more damaging to the climate than conventional fuels due to their indirect impacts. Still such indirect impacts are being ignored in EU policies. Promoting woody bio-energy ignores the fact that a rapid increase in wood demand will have immense negative impacts on the world s forests and forest peoples as well as on indigenous communities that are already suffering from the direct and indirect impacts of monoculture tree plantations being expanded in their lands and territories for this purpose. The demand for industrial wood bio-energy is causing large areas especially in the South to be taken over by monoculture tree plantations to serve the interests of the North. The displacement of North American paper production increases the likelihood of massive pulp mill and plantation expansion in South America South-east and East Asia and southern Africa as well as in Russia. The demand for wood and other forms of biomass will rise even further as second generation agro-fuels are becoming commercially viable and economically attractive. So far these liquid fuels remain largely in the research arena and development phase but biotech

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