30 May 2008 - The painful spike in prices of basic foodstuffs, from wheat and corn, to vegetable oils, rice and meat, has prompted some in the media and politics, normally uninterested in renewable energy, to call for the abandonment of government policies encouraging use of biofuels.
The charge that the growth of biofuels output has taken land away from food production, and therefore caused the hunger, food riots and distress of recent weeks, is a serious one, but does evidence support it?
A team at New Energy Finance has crunched all the numbers on biofuel production, land use, food ...
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18 June 2008 - Climate change will be at the top of the agenda of the G8 Summit taking place at Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan. To be able to achieve a global climate agreement in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 for the critical period after 2013, G8 leaders must go beyond the long-term goal of halving global emissions by 2050 they promised to consider at last year’s Heiligendamm meeting and deliver a strong political message from Toyako calling for ambitious medium-term GHG reductions, which are required to prevent intolerable impacts of climate change. Japan needs to take the lead, as Germany did at He ...
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