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Wood isn’t the climate-friendly material you think it is

Grist

The bottom line is you got a lot of emissions coming from wood harvest, and we don’t pay attention to that,” said Tim Searchinger, senior fellow and technical director for agriculture, forestry, and ecosystems at the World Resources Institute and a co-author on the paper. Still, Searchinger said there’s a silver lining to the study.

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Biofuels are a controversial climate solution. Could they still help save the planet?

Grist

But for Tim Searchinger, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute and staunch critic of biofuels , these results don’t bolster the case for pursuing biofuels as a climate solution. That’s why Searchinger was not won over by the study’s results for BECCS. That’s really the only metric we’re looking at right here.”.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

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Others need consumers to change behavior, or governments and businesses to reform policies,” write the report’s main authors Tim Searchinger , Craig Hanson , Richard Waite and Janet Ranganathan in an accompanying blog post. “Some items in the menu require more farmers to implement best practices that already exist today.

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