Climate Change

 EU's energy plan offers relief to eastern nations

the European Union has come up with a new energy plan. It envisages reducing emissions by 20 per cent by 2020. eu will convert a fifth of its energy to renewable energy and biofuels by then. On

Publication Date: 
28/02/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Climate Change, Emission Targets, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Biofuel, Emissions Trading, United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU)
Agriculture

 EU takes note of negative impacts of biofuel, plans policy change

the European Union is planning to ban certain biofuels, saying their social and environmental impacts are dangerous. eu is likely to review its draft policy on biofuels to effect the ban. The

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Palm Oil, Ethanol, Energy Policy, Biofuel, NGO, European Union (EU)
Transport

Transportation fuels for the future

Transportation fuels are the major component of the energy portfolio. Of the 20 million barrels of petroleum consumed each day in the United States, 68 percent is used in the transportation sector. The Western states are in position to become key producers and beneficiaries in the emerging alternative-fuels economy.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2008
Western Governors Association
Tags:
Environment, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Hydrogen, Fuel Efficiency, Economy, Biofuel, Transport, Natural Gas, Finance, United States Of America (US), Alternative Fuels
Agriculture

Growing demand on agriculture and rising prices of commodities

The recent rapid increases in the international prices of many basic food commodities have raised many questions from policy-makers, the media, the public, and the farmers who have the opportunity to benefit from the situation.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2008
FAO
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Crops, Food Prices, Food Supply, Biofuel, Consumption Patterns, India, Global, Fuel Pricing
Climate Change

 Florida's draft motor rules

The us state Florida has come up with draft motor fuel rules that aims to boost ethanol blending in the country's third largest petrol market. Limited ethanol blending is already occurring in

Publication Date: 
30/01/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ethanol, Fuel Quality, Petrol, Energy Policy, Biofuel, Legislation, United States Of America (US)
Food Policy

World's poor are up in arms over food prices

"We apologise for recent price increases," reads the sign over the bread counter, "but they are due to global factors beyond our control." This is not a Third World food stall but an upscale supermarket in Brussels, capital of the European Union, whose farming system was once notorious for the mountains of surplus grain it produced. Those mountains are now gone. The world is down to its lowest grain stocks for decades, and food prices are up around the world.

Publication Date: 
26/01/2008
Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist
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Tags:
Land Use, Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Food Prices, Food Supply, Biofuel, Conflicts, China, Russia, Mexico, India, Food Security, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

EU Sets Tough Criteria for Green Biofuels

Publication Date: 
24/01/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Biofuel
Mining

Biofuels 'detrimental to environment' say MPs

Publication Date: 
22/01/2008
Edie (UK)
Tags:
Biofuel
Wildlife

1st Japanese Rice Ethanol Plant to Start 2009

Publication Date: 
21/01/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Biofuel
Energy

Sugar in the tank

SIR RICHARD BRANSON, the bearded billionaire who founded Virgin Atlantic, is fond of surprises. Next month his airline plans to test-fly an aircraft that is partly powered by biofuels, something most experts thought was years away.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2008
Economist (London)
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Biofuel, Energy, United Kingdom (UK)

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