there's this couple of articles on the BBC and NYT about that
very subject ...
apparently, the biofuel craze in europe is fueling a boom in palm
oil in indonesian and malaysia, but that itself is leading to
widespread deforestation and air-pollution ... (we know that in
singapore very well, the haze) ... so it's ending up that biofuels
are actually dumping more carbon onto the atmosphere than fossil
fuels ...
go google for them ... 
