LittleYellowFrog

In another article which shows how the environmental movement is, at times, running to stand still, the BBC reports that we are on the cusp of a huge increase in air travel from India. Target passenger numbers of 100 million passengers a year for Delhi doesn’t bode well for the environment.

Nevertheless, the West is hardly in a position to preach here – we don’t seem to be doing a great deal to discourage air travel ourselves.

The BBC is reporting on a UN paper about biofuels. The UN-Energy inter-agency group have published a paper entitled “Sustainable Bioenergy: A Framework for Decision Makers” (PDF download). It raises concerns that over-enthusiastic production of biofuels has the potential to displace food crop production, lead to clearing of existing land and potentially exclude local participation in this new aspect of the economy. However, if managed properly, some or all of these problems can be avoided.