United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is a United Nations agency based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Impacts of Global Biofuel Boom Remain Murky, 16 October 2009 by Scientific American: A U.N. Environment Programme "report concludes that so-called lifecycle assessments must go beyond calculating greenhouse gas emissions and consider how agricultural production of feedstocks affect the acidification and nutrient loading of waterways."
- "'From a representative sample of [lifecycle] studies on biofuels, less than one third presented results for acidification and eutrophication, and only a few for toxicity potential (either human toxicity or eco-toxicity, or both), summer smog, ozone depletion or abiotic resource depletion potential, and none on biodiversity,' it adds."
- "The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels."[1]

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- UNEP's International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.

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