{"id":3561,"date":"2010-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/rainforest-rescue\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"rainforest-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/02\/rainforest-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"RAINFOREST RESCUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>A leaked draft EU document shows that the Commission would like to rename palm oil plantations as &ldquo;forest&rdquo; in order that biodiesel from palm oil plantations can still meet EU biofuels sustainability criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Palm oil expansion is a major cause of tropical rainforest destruction and biodiesel from palm oil can easily cause more greenhouse gas emissions that the fossil fuel it is meant to replace.<br \/>Please email the new energy and environment Commissioners and ask them to amend this document to give a clear message to member states that biodiesel from palm oil has no role to play in a sustainable EU energy mix.<\/p>\n<p>The alert can be found at<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rainforest-rescue.org\/\" ><br \/>http:\/\/www.rainforest-rescue.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Reinhard Behrend<br \/>Rettet den Regenwald e. V.<br \/>Friedhofsweg 28<br \/>22337 Hamburg<br \/>Germany<\/p>\n<p>info@regenwald.org<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rainforest-rescue.org\" ><br \/>http:\/\/www.rainforest-rescue.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, A leaked draft EU document shows that the Commission would like to rename palm oil plantations as &ldquo;forest&rdquo; in order that biodiesel from palm oil plantations can still meet EU biofuels sustainability criteria. Palm oil expansion is a major cause of tropical rainforest destruction and biodiesel from palm oil can easily cause more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}