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The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Industires on sustainability
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog)
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March.
It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of the people who live in the land and who may not be farmers. He is exactly right though in terms of the EU's sustainability criteria and how they should integrate with WTO and be science based. Should the Malaysian position on biodiversity be equally science based. If it isn't and it is probably debateable tot he degree that it does conform to prinicples of sustainabilty and biodiversity, does that matter if it is a case of feeding people and ensuring economic prosperity?
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The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March.
It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of the people who live in the land and who may not be farmers. He is exactly right though in terms of the EU's sustainability criteria and how they should integrate with WTO and be science based. Should the Malaysian position on biodiversity be equally science based. If it isn't and it is probably debateable tot he degree that it does conform to prinicples of sustainabilty and biodiversity, does that matter if it is a case of feeding people and ensuring economic prosperity?
The press release follows...
More (from The Big Biofuels Blog)...