{"id":1205,"date":"2007-06-06T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2007-06-06T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:59:14","slug":"greenpeace-making-waves-choose-the-right-biofuel-or-the-orang-utan-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/greenpeace-making-waves-choose-the-right-biofuel-or-the-orang-utan-gets-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace &#8211; Making Waves: Choose the right biofuel or the orang-utan gets it"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Last month in the UK, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org.uk\/blog\/climate\/biofuels-green-dream-or-climate-change-nightmare-20070509\">launched a campaign<\/a> with several other organisations for rigorous controls on biofuels. Governments across the EU are trying to force fuel companies to supply more biofuels and so cut carbon dioxide emissions, but while biofuels could make a small contribution in the battle against climate change, they could in fact do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>If rainforests are cut down to make way to grow &#8216;green fuels&#8217;, it will not only destroy homes for animals like orang-utans, it will also be catastrophic for the climate by releasing more greenhouse gases by destroying forests than we will save using biofuels. The link between deforestation has been well documented so clearing forests to grow biofuel crops makes absolutely no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the campaign launched with a cheeky press ad (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org.uk\/files\/pdfs\/climate\/biofuels_advert.pdf\">here&#8217;s a PDF version<\/a>) warning of the perils of biofuels, which has now been made into a short, sharp shock of a film which is playing above. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month in the UK, we launched a campaign with several other organisations for rigorous controls on biofuels. Governments across the EU are trying to force fuel companies to supply more biofuels and so cut carbon dioxide emissions, but while biofuels could make a small contribution in the battle against climate change, they could in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}