The great carbon scam

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3092, 2016, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On the face of it, Europe is a leader in tackling climate change, on course to get 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. But don't cheer just yet. Because the biggest source of renewable energy in the European Union isn't one of the ones everyone talks about--wind, solar or even hydro. No, the EU now gets more than 60 percent of its renewable energy from biomass: some from crops grown to make liquid biofuels, but mostly from waste wood and felled trees. Here, Le Page discusses the assumptions that renewable energy does not reduce emissions