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IPCC's Climate Report: Ind Land Use Change estimates:"highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable" [View all]
http://globalrfa.org/news-media/iluc-unverifiable-and-biofuels-economically-beneficial-says-ipccTORONTO, Canada – The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) released their “Bioenergy and Climate Change Mitigation: An Assessment” report in Berlin on Sunday that confirmed that biofuels production is economically beneficial and that Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) modelling is unverifiable.
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The IPCC report contained another significant finding regarding Indirect Land Use Change, an attempt to predict future land use patterns globally. The report stated that[font size="3"] “These estimates of global LUC (Land Use Change) are highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable, and dependent on assumed policy, economic contexts, and inputs used in the modelling.”[/font]
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