The sweet fight against climate change

We all know that too much sugar is bad for our health. But reducing its consumption could also have major benefits in the fight against climate change. Photo: AFP

We all know that too much sugar is bad for our health. But reducing its consumption could also have major benefits in the fight against climate change, argue Spanish researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).

According to their study published in the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, sugar crops hold great potential for the production of biofuels for cars, particularly bioethanol.