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Review of Scientific Aspects of the NASA Triana Mission

Letter Report

Letter Report Space Studies Board, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Engineering and
Physical Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies. TABLE 2 NASA's
Objectives for ...

Undang-undang perkawinan

undang-undang Republik Indonesia nomor 1 tahun 1974 tentang perkahwinan

Letter Report on the Review of the Food Safety and Inspection Service Proposed Risk-Based Approach to and Application of Public-Health Attribution

(2004) to calculate Salmonella attribution estimates. In addition, the committee
heard from stakeholders regarding their concerns with the proposed FSIS risk-
based approach. This letter report first provides background information on the
FSIS ...

A review of environmental issues in the context of biofuel sustainability frameworks

With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting this expansion, concerns about the biofuel sector’s environmental and social impacts are increasing. Consequently, a range of actors – among them governments, multilateral institutions, nongovernmental organisations and multistakeholder industry groups – have created sustainability frameworks, some mandatory, others voluntary. This report examines how the most developed sustainability frameworks for feedstock production (including biofuels) address key environmental issues. It identifies critical gaps in these frameworks and proposes areas for improvement. The main finding is that the frameworks share broad sustainability principles yet they differ greatly in terms of their comprehensiveness and how they apply specific indicators for environmental issues, particularly with respect to land use change (both direct and indirect), allocation of degraded land for feedstock cultivation, and related accounting of greenhouse gas emissions. In the absence of sufficient hard data with which to gauge the effectiveness of existing sustainability frameworks, the report notes that the standards of these frameworks are not sufficient to mitigate the effects of direct and indirect land use change and promote environmental conservation. A key recommendation is that such standards should be complemented by other policy instruments. Furthermore, as sustainability frameworks are only a means to an end, they must be supported by practical guidance, effective interpretation of standards, principles and criteria, and development of verifiable indicators, along with the provision of appropriate tools, approaches and capacity building activities.

Although analysing the sustainability of biofuel production began as an academic
exercise, it is becoming a mandatory ... and transport) are considered viable
strategies to ensure the sector adheres to principles of sustainable development.