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Non Food Biofuel Crops Are Highly Risky According To The United Nations

Posted on August 24, 2008

Food crops for the use of biofuels are massively controversial but the so-called second generation biofuel crops have massive side effects as well. These more recent crops are non food, but experts are warning that many of them are invasive species'. In other words, they're weeds which have huge potential to escape the biofuel farms where they're grown and overrun natural land and other areas. The problem has the attention of UN scientists. At a recent meeting in Bonn, Germany, specialists from the Global Invasive Species Program, as well as scientists from the Nature Conservancy and the I...

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asia , biofuel , biofuels , germany , global warming , palm oil
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