Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. Net vegetable oil imports grew by about 4 MMT between 2006 and 2022, especially canola oil and palm oil, which have replaced soybean oil in food uses.

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Biofuels 2016 2022 Deforestation 291

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

In 2019, after my article for Forbes upon which the Amazon chapter in Apocalypse Never is based, Nepstad complained to Mongabay , an activist web site, and again to Kasprak, that I didn’t write about the risk of deforestation leading to “savanification,” which is the transformation of rainforest into a savanna. The question is how.

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Rainforest Climate Change Deforestation Natural Gas 86

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. and around the world.

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Climate Change 2019 2020 Greenhouse 77

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate. United States.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105