A recent briefing by Oxfam, using Europe-centric data from IFEU, shows biofuels may not be the best bet for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To be sure, they do have a net positive emission-reduction impact when they substitute fossil fuels, but there is a larger carbon dividend from other solutions—such as deriving the same quantum of energy from solar power using a very small portion of the land required by biofuels and rewilding the remainder.
