Mexico has recently taken significant steps toward promoting the bioenergy sector. Motivations to adopt bioenergy include: energy security, economic development and international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These opportunities also raise concerns including the influence that e...
Romero Hernández, O.
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Masera, O.
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Romero, S.
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Grunstein, M.
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[Legal and institutional frameworks at national and subnational levels for biofuel promotion in Mexico]
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Legal and institutional frameworks at national and subnational levels for biofuel promotion in Mexico
In this article, we attempt to find the spatial relations between deforestation and biofuel production at global level by analyzing available global deforestation and biofuels data, and find that, for a variety of reasons relating to data availability and its characteristics, and the way biofuels...
Gao, Y.
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Skutsch, M.
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Drigo, R.
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Pacheco, P.
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Masera, O.
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[Assessing deforestation from biofuels: methodological challenges]
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Assessing deforestation from biofuels: methodological challenges
This report examines whether the recent increase in biofuel feedstock production is resulting in increased deforestation rates and magnitudes within tropical regions. It reviews several methodological challenges for undertaking this analysis, and presents a set of preliminary findings. The analys...
Gao, Y.
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Skutsch, M.
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Masera, O.
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Pacheco, P.
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[A global analysis of deforestation due to biofuel development]
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A global analysis of deforestation due to biofuel development