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Tell Leading Climate Scientists, Industrialists and Negotiators to Stop Promoting Industrial Scale Biochar



Please protest proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation, and against their inclusion into carbon markets. Biochar, along with agrofuels, will result in devastating expansion of industrial agriculture which threatens people, climate and ecosystems.




Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel


Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama administration must start by rejecting the proposal to increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.


6/4 - Salazar: Wind power can replace 3,000 coal plants, Associated Press


6/4 - Carbon cap deal "very difficult": U.N. climate chief, Reuters