Mitigating climate change through oil palm cultivation
by Yew Foong-Kheong, Kalyana Sundram, Yusof Basiron
International Journal of Global Warming (IJGW), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2010

Abstract: Oil palm requires 7-11 times less land area than soyabean, rapeseed and sunflower to produce the same amount of oil. Therefore, the use of palm oil for food and biofuel, has saved 97-159 million ha of land from being deforested for cultivation with lower yielding oil crops. This has avoided 27-45 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂-e) emissions. Oil palm also sequesters eight times more CO₂ than soyabean. As a biofuel, the use of palm biodiesel results in 62-82% Life Cycle Analysis Greenhouse Gas (LCA GHG) reduction when compared with fossil fuel.

Online publication date: Tue, 29-Jun-2010

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