Sunday, April 29th, 2007
EU makes an Environmental Oops: New ‘Green’ rules increase global warming and rainforest deforestation
You read that right.
The new binding energy targets the EU voted on and approved to lower CO2 and make Europe more 'green' will actually increase global warming, threaten endangered species and speed the deforestation of the South East Asian rainforests.
Via the Mighty Orb:
EU green targets will damage rainforests
European union green fuel targets will accelerate the destruction of rainforests in South-East Asia and threaten the habitat of endangered species, such as the orang-utan.
In March EU leaders agreed to set a binding climate change target to make biofuel - energy sources made from plant material - account for 10 per cent of all Europe's transport fuels by 2020.
But the European Commission has admitted that the objective, which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions, may have the unintended consequence of speeding up the destruction of tropical rainforests and peatlands in South-East Asia - actually increasing, not reducing, global warming.

