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Everything You Wanted to Know About Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel. Charts and Graphs Included

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level. Most bio-based diesel fuels are made from vegetable oil.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable superfood in a rapidly changing world, study finds

Frontiers

A more efficient food source The review highlights the current technologies for commercially developing and growing microalgae, as well as the scientific and economic challenges to scaling production.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

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.