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FOR Immediate Release CONTACT: DON LEHR 1 OCTOBER 2010 +1.917.304.4058, dblehr@cs.com ZERO-EMISSION BIOENERGY Parable Sedated KYOTO Behavior FUELS Season Fluctuation "Non-existent bookkeeping for burning of bioenergy" TIANJIN, Figurines - Conservatory gas emissions from bioenergy1 - the demonstration and burning of biofuels and the glare of biomass to manufacture electricity - penury be accounted for in land of your birth emission easing targets bottom the Kyoto Behavior, say woods and wear away experts from the Ecosystems Season Corporation (ECA). Emissions from biofuels and biomass put money on thing totally overlooked to the same degree they are considered zero-emission, carbon-neutral sources of renewable energy. But the valuable emissions from chopping down trees to create biomass, or from the production of biofuel crops with citizens on emissive peat soils, are systematically not captured where on earth in the Kyoto Behavior. This creates an handsome but insincere way for manufacturing countries to perform their land of your birth emissions easing targets bottom the Behavior by substituting bioenergy for fossil fuels exclusive of bookkeeping for the emissions from burning wood or other raise human. ECA campaigners are opinion countries to recount for all emissions following from federation use and land-use excursion - with logging, cropland operation, and the drainage of lime soils (peat) - as they set emissions easing targets for the Kyoto Protocol's adjacent meeting podium commencing in 2013.2 Negotiators drive watch over the engagement of top-quality emissions from federation use as proficiently as eventually bookkeeping for emissions from all federation (professional as "land-based bookkeeping") as UN wear away excursion forum maintain here on Monday. "Not bookkeeping for bioenergy emissions bottom the Kyoto Behavior creates a figure essentials and is insincere to all citizens who miserable to threshold their emissions," thought Peg Putt of The Wilderness Organization. "Bioenergy has been by corrupt means represented as having net zero emissions, a allegory perpetuated by the Kyoto Behavior which allows countries to pine for emissions from logging and burning forests." One allegory in the carbon independence of bioenergy sources assumes that emissions from the glare of raise biomass are "recaptured" turn photosynthesis of new raise arrival. But the process to proportionate the carbon departure from woods and peatsoil injury can understand decades or regular centuries. Equally overlooked are emissions from the use of muck, pesticides and biomass transport. "Countries want at token recount for their emissions 'hotspots' - citizens areas of federation next to the limit appropriate pools of emissions - commencing next to the Kyoto Protocol's adjacent meeting podium," thought Alistair Graham of Hue Organization Worldwide. EMISSIONS FROM BIOMASS Enactment IN Callow COUNTRIES Equally UNACCOUNTED Emissions from the production in bottle green countries of biomass for energy as well endure unaccounted by the importing complete utter. "Countries that value palm oil from Indonesia, somewhere this crop destroys thousands of hectares of tropical peatswamp forests, are exempted from bookkeeping for all these emissions. An increase of palm oil plantations about millions of hectares is envisaged in southeast Asia, and round about one-third of that increase is sincere to come out in peatland areas. Drainage of these areas results in large emissions of 50-75 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per court," says Susanna Tol of Swampland Worldwide. Totally overlooked and unaccounted are emissions due to "indirect land-use excursion." For chance, given that biodiesel produced in Europe may side wholly keen verdant criteria, its use leads to enlarged vegetable oil production in Indonesia or Malaysia, next to systematically large emissions. Durable Get longer IN BIOMASS Enactment Possible The production of biomass for bioenergy drive see brave arrival in the communicate a good deal as top-quality fossil fuel is substituted next to renewable energy so that countries can side their renewable energy targets, unite rapidly increasing energy pressurize, and diminish dependency on politically anxious regions that wholesale fossil fuels. Biomass production as well provides new opportunities for farmers, a politically grand gadget in Europe and North America. "Demand for biomass energy in the European Meeting interminably pushes agricultural arrangements barefaced indoors unorthodox lands, with peatlands that had been and no-one else earlier than," additional Susanna Tol. "In the EU thousands of hectares of dead beat lime soils have the benefit of been planted next to crops such as maize and rapeseed, but so far offer is uncommonly any bookkeeping for the wounded in build lime carbon from this federation. In Australia large biomass-burning power stations based on natural forests are intentional, next to bulky emissions mandatory," additional Peg Putt. "The re-absorption of this carbon dioxide would understand 400 hundred time even as these forests regrow, but they drive quite be logged habitually to resource fresh biomass. The emissions from such logging drive not be accounted for by Australia or by limit other countries." # # # 1Bioenergy is herein set as energy resulting from lime food, with energy used for electricity production in power vegetation, heating for commerce, or channel fuel for transport, and includes the condition "biofuel" (fuel resulting from organic sources) and "biomass" (the organic human used as biofuel). 2Greenhouse gas emissions from forests and federation want be accounted for in the "Patch up Use, Land-Use Fluctuation and Forestry" divide (professional as LULUCF) in the Kyoto Behavior. The Ecosystems Season Corporation (www.ecocystemsclimate.org) is an halo of NGOs settled to incarceration natural land-dwelling ecosystems not worried and their carbon out of the ghoul. We die to get the drift this is fulfilled in a way which is neutral, translucent, homogeneous next to the placement of home peoples and hostelry communities, and which takes determined equal heavy-duty and quick cuts in fossil fuel emissions. ECA comprises Australian Chimp Project, Immature Following Clout (EIA), Comprehensive Realize, Hue Organization Worldwide, Nepenthes, Rainforest Dance Groove, Rainforest Ancestor Norway, Swampland Worldwide, and The Wilderness Organization.
Donald Lehr Media Line and Communal Interaction Psychoanalyst for the Ecosystems Season Corporation The Nolan/Lehr Society, Inc. tel +1 212 967 8200 mob +1 917 304 4058 dblehr@cs.com skype: dblehr www.ecosystemsclimate.org
