The OECD in an official paper entitled “Special Issue on Climate Change Climate Change Policies: Recent Developments and Long Term Issues†said, “Biofuels may also be used as a replacement for gasoline. In such a capacity they offer significant advantages for energy security as well as possible new potential for agricultural development.â€
A draft discussion document prepared for an OECD affiliate, the Round Table on Sustained Development, has been recently attributed to the OECD by numerous media organizations.
An author of a study produced for the OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development has posted a clarification on Gristmill regarding the relationship between OECD and the report. He writes:
"I was surp...
In France, a senior official at the at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said that biofuels can only be partly blamed for the recent increases in commodity prices, calling effo...
The OECD released its "Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies", concluding that public sector support of first-generation biofuel production is costly, has a limited greenhouse gas emission ...
In starkly competing views on the future, the OECD said "Solutions to the key environmental challenges are available, achievable and affordable" in its 2008 Outlook to 2030, while the UK's Chief Scien...
The New York Times mis-attributed a discussion document written by the Chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development at OECD as "a recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation a...
In France, the OECD and FAO published a new Agricultural Outlook. The report forecasts an increase in global ethanol production to 33 billion gallons by 2017, up 100 percent from 2007, with prices ave...