Biofuels offer cure worse than the disease: OECD
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass emits up to 94% less carbon dioxide than petrol, a US study finds.
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LONDON, November 30  - The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has reduced its global economic growth forecast for 2005 to reflect the negative impact of the high oil prices on global trade and consumer
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In cutting across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, governments in Europe are discovering how difficult it can be to figure out whether a particular fuel has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
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A U.N. expert on Friday called the growing practice of converting food crops into biofuel "a crime against humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.
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Chemists in the United States say they have broken new ground in biofuels, transforming plant sugar into a liquid fuel that packs 40-percent more energy than ethanol and appears to have fewer of its drawbacks.
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The government's record on delivering renewable energy is under attack.
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The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those linked to the production of conventional fuels, scientists said.
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England's BioTruck team aims to promote greener alternatives to fuels like ethanol.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has warned that the drive for environment-friendly bio-fuel risked pushing oil prices &quot;through the roof,&quot; the Financial Times reported Wednesday.
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Researchers at MIT say a genetically modified yeast can increase ethanol production by 50 percent. Technology may be the key to replacing fossil fuels, but let's not be blinded by science. In Autopia.
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Global oil prices are set to cool although not rapidly and not to levels seen in the 1990s, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.
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Ethanol is the currently the star of biofuels but new mandates will spur development of synthetic biofuels that mimic fossil fuels, says policy analyst.
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According to two studies published this week in Science, when all relevant factors are accounted for, biofuels produce more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels.
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The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said.
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The soaring cost of oil hits global economic growth, although recovery is not a distant prospect, according to the OECD.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidies, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.