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This Brazilian government video tells about the agroecological zoning of sugarcane production, which sets guidelines for the expansion of sugarcane culture without harming areas with original vegetation and also important biomes such as those of the Amazon Region, the Pantanal Wetlands and the Upper Paraguay Basin. It presents the public policies that seek to promote the expansion of the sustainable production of sugar cane in the Brazilian territory as a way of producing clean and renewable energy withoutCollected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Dec 18, 2009 -
Nations Offer $3.5B to Cut Emissions, Help Forests
According to NPR's Newshour, some progress was made in Copenhagen today (Dec 15, 2009) on the issue of deforestation. We have a report from Brazil, produced by Independent Television News Correspondent Jonathan Miller, exploring the challenges faced implementing a UN-backed program called "REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation".Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Dec 16, 2009 -
Indirect Effects of Clean Tech
Are Rare Earth Minerals Too Costly for Environment? PBS's Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News examines how mining rare earth minerals -- considered to be an obscure yet profitable industry, is causing a major environmental dilemma in China.Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Dec 15, 2009 -
Growth Energy Radio Ads on ILUC
Growth Energy is running this radio ad in various cities around the country.Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Nov 24, 2009 -
RFA's Video on Indirect Effects of Oil
This is a video from the corn ethanol lobby, RFA, on the indirect effects of oil production and use. It's quite impressive and shows that regulators may well be biased against ethanol.Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Sep 16, 2009 -
NYT Video on Balancing Brazil's Forests
The New York Times Elisabeth Rosenthal tells of the efforts to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by paying landowners to preserve forests. Worth a read as it talks about how Brazil is trying to balance development and conservation, a key issue for biofuels producers. Deforestation, a critical contributor to climate change, effectively accounts for 20 percent of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions and 70 percent of the emissions in Brazil. Halting new deforestation, experts say, is as powerful aCollected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Aug 24, 2009 -
Radio on Biofuels ILUC
The public radio program, The World, produced by the BBC and others, put out a segment suggesting the debate is heating up in Europe and the United States over the benefits, real or imagined, of increased biofuel production. It's worth a listen, unfortunately.Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Jul 1, 2009 -
Al Gore Talks up Sugarcane Biofuels
In his testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on January 28 2009, Al Gore was asked by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) about the myth that sugarcane is leading to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. After praising Brazil’s President Lula proposal to contain thought-less deforestation, Gore said, “it’s important to note that the exploitation of the sugarcane growing areas in Brazil, which gives a highly efficient source of ethanol, that’s efficient economically and in terms ofCollected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Jun 18, 2009 -
Cattle, not Biofuels, Responsible for Amazon Destruction
Cattle, not Biofuels, Responsible for Amazon Destruction The radical group Greenpeace just release a report that says that cattle farms, not biofuels, and the demand for cattle products, many of which end up on sale in the U.S. and Europe, is what is driving deforestation in the Amazon. Greenpeace says that one in every eight hectares destroyed globally is due to illegal cattle ranching. If not biofuels, what is driving the destruction of the Amazon? Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plCollected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Jun 18, 2009
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SugarcaneBlog This Brazilian government video tells about the agroecological zoning of sugarcane production, which sets guidelines for the expansion of sugarcane culture without harming areas with original vegetation and also important biomes such as those of the Amazon Region, the Pantanal Wetlands and the Upper Paraguay Basin. It presents the public policies that seek to promote the expansion of the sustainable production of sugar cane in the Brazilian territory as a way of producing clean and renewable energy without
Dec 18, 2009