Indonesia s palm oil-powered green diesel fuels threat to forests
Kuala Lumpur - Indonesia s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations. Indonesia - which is home to the world s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil - has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil
di Michael Taylor
04/02/2021
Kuala Lumpur - Indonesia s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations. Indonesia - which is home to the world s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil - has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate de
Indonesia’s palm-oil-powered diesel fueling threat to forests
Biodiesel should not be viewed as a substitute for fossil fuel, say environmental groups, who have urged Jakarta to be more ambitious in its efforts to cut emissions
By Michael Taylor / Thomson Reuters Foundation, KUALA LUMPUR
Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel program would increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists say, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations.
Indonesia which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest, but is also its biggest producer of palm oil has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand.
By Michael Taylor KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations.
Indonesia - which is home to the world s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil - has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand. Looking to also curb costly fuel imports and its planet-heating emissions, the Southeast Asian country raised the bio content in its biodiesel to 30% in late 2019 from 20% the year before, with the rest being fossil fuel.
Parent firm of COP26 sponsor opened big gas plants in Mexico
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The parent company of one of the ‘green’ sponsors of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has opened four new gas-fired power plants in Mexico since 2019.
Spanish-based utilities giant Iberdrola signed 25-year contracts to construct, operate and maintain the new plants, which have a combined capacity of nearly 3.5 gigawatts, in 2018. Construction of the plants was completed between 2019 and 2020, and all four are now operational.
In November 2020 Iberdrola’s British subsidiary, ScottishPower, was selected by the UK Government as one of the principal corporate partners of the global climate summit (COP26), which is due to be held in Glasgow in November 2021.