CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIOFUELS

It is more than necessary to examine the issue of climate change and the connection that it has with the tremendous demand of mineral fuels in the last decades. It is also a necessity to examine thoroughly the alternatives that we have, like the use of biofuels, and to point out both the advantages and disadvantages of their use in order to define the conditions that should be applied for the minimisation of the effect of greenhouse emissions and thus to minimise the phenomenon of climate change. Biofuels are able to cover a small percentage of the energetic needs of the planet's population, do not charge the atmosphere with carbon dioxide emissions but they should not be cultivated in fertile lands.