Biofuels in China: crop production and water scarcity

In 2009 China produced 2 billion litres of biofuels, ranking the country third behind Brazil and the USA. The Chinese government has set ambitious targets seeing biofuels as not only contributing to the country’s rapidly expanding energy needs, but also as a way of providing rural employment. With China having 20 percent of the world’s…

  • Produced by:
    Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
  • Year:
    01/03/2012

Biofuels in China: crop production and water scarcity

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