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The Power of Bioenergy-Related Standards to Protect Biodiversity

机译：生物能源相关标准保护生物多样性的力量

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The sustainable production of bioenergy is vital to avoiding negative impacts on environmental goods such as climate, soil, water, and especially biodiversity. We propose three key issues that should be addressed in any biodiversity risk-mitigation strategy: conservation of areas of significant biodiversity value; mitigation of negative effects related to indirect land-use change; and promotion of agricultural practices with few negative impacts on biodiversity. Focusing on biodiversity concerns, we compared principles and criteria set to address biodiversity and other environmental and social issues in seven standards (defined here as commodity-based standards or roundtables, or relevant European legislation): five voluntary initiatives related to bioenergy feedstocks, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (United Kingdom), and the European Renewable Energy Source Directive. Conservation of areas of significant biodiversity value was fairly well covered by these standards. Nevertheless, mitigation of negative impacts related to indirect land-use change was underrepresented. Although the EU directive, with its bonus system for the use of degraded land and a subquota system for noncrop biofuels, offered the most robust standards to mitigate potential negative effects, all of the standards fell short in promoting agricultural practices with low negative impacts on biodiversity. We strongly recommend that each standard be benchmarked against related standards, as we have done here, and that efforts should be made to strengthen the elements that are weak or missing. This would be a significant step toward achieving a bioenergy industry that safeguards Earth's living heritage.
机译：生物能源的可持续生产对于避免对诸如气候，土壤，水，特别是生物多样性等环境商品产生负面影响至关重要。我们提出了在任何生物多样性风险缓解战略中都应解决的三个关键问题：保护具有重要生物多样性价值的地区;减轻与间接土地利用变化有关的负面影响;推广对生物多样性几乎没有负面影响的农业做法。针对生物多样性问题，我们在七个标准（此处定义为基于商品的标准或圆桌会议，或相关的欧洲法规）中比较了为解决生物多样性以及其他环境和社会问题而设定的原则和标准：与生物能源原料有关的五项自愿倡议，可再生能源运输燃料义务（英国）和欧洲可再生能源指令。这些标准涵盖了具有重大生物多样性价值的地区的保护。然而，减轻与间接土地利用变化有关的负面影响的作用不足。尽管欧盟指令提供了使用退化土地的奖励制度和非农作物生物燃料的次级配额制度，提供了最有效的标准来减轻潜在的负面影响，但是所有这些标准在促进对生物多样性的负面影响较低的农业实践方面均达不到标准。我们强烈建议像我们在此所做的那样，将每个标准都与相关标准进行比较，并应努力加强那些薄弱环节或缺失的要素。这将是朝着保护地球生命遗产的生物能源产业迈出的重要一步。

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