An article in the journal Science (August 2007) argues that the the EU target of ensuring 10% of petrol and diesel comes from renewable sources by 2020 is not an effective way to curb carbon emissions.
The authors suggest that reforestation and habitat protection is a better option: forests could absorb up to nine times more CO2 than the production of biofuels could achieve on the same area of land. However the growth in biofuels production is leading to more deforestation. The authors of the article are Renton Righelato of the World Land Trust and Dominick Spracklen at the University of Leeds.
You can read the BBC's coverage of the article here or for the World Land Trust press release see here.
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