IPCC's Climate Report: Ind Land Use Change estimates:"highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable"

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I'm pretty sure you have found the true document they've taken the quotes from

This document is the copy‐edited version of the final draft Report, dated 17 December 2013, of the
Working Group III contribution to the IPCC 5th Assessment Report "Climate Change 2014:
Mitigation of Climate Change" that was accepted but not approved in detail by the 12th Session of
Working Group III and the 39th Session of the IPCC on 12 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

That basically fits with saying 'Berlin on Sunday' on April 14th. It also has, on p.97 and 98, the "Bioenergy projects can be economically beneficial" and "Brazilian sugar cane ethanol production provides six times more jobs than the Brazilian petroleum sector" quotes. It goes on to point out things like

"The establishment of large‐scale biofuels feedstock production can also cause smallholders, tenants,
and herders to lose access to productive land, while other social groups such as workers, investors,
company owners, biofuels consumers, and populations who are more responsible for GHG emission
reductions enjoy the benefits of this production"
and
"Bioenergy deployment is more beneficial when it is not an additional land‐use activity expanding
over the landscape, but rather integrates into existing land uses and influences the way farmers and
forest owners use their land"
but those aren't so positive, so the PR job ignored them. I think you're right - they made up the document title (there are other non-IPCC documents fronm earlier years using that phrase), and it does make it hard to put the quotes in context. It does however show which sites take their PR from the central source without checking it.