Climate Change

Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

This report provides an analysis of the tools and tactics advocacy groups use to influence policy responses to climate change at international, regional, national and sub-national levels.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
Hannah Reid, Gifty Ampomah, María Isabel Olazábal Prera, Golam Rabbani, Shepard Zvigadza
IIED
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Climate Change, Global, South Asia, India, Low Carbon Economy, Advocacy, NGO, REDD, Climate Agreements, Finance, Disaster Management, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Wetlands, Climate Adaptation
Energy

Shell, Logen Scrap Plans For Canada Biofuel Plant

Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Iogen Corp have scrapped plans for a commercial-scale biofuel plant in Manitoba, spelling the loss of 150 jobs and raising questions about widespread and near-term use of

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
Planet Ark (Australia)
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Canada, Biofuel, Energy, Agriculture, Waste To Energy, Ethanol, Sugarcane, Food Crops, Petrochemical Industry, Green House Gases, Alternative Fuels
Energy

 EU's biofuel policy fuelling food inflation: ActionAid

Report predicts forced displacement of poor people from their land to meet EU targets to grow fuel crops. The European Union’s biofuel policies are driving up global food prices and pushing people in poor countries off their land, says a recent report of ActionAid. EU has a target of 10 per cent renewable energy in transport by 2020, and 88 per cent of this is expected to come from biofuels. The report Fuel for Thought comes at a time when the European Commission is set to submit a report on Renewable Energy Directive to the European Parliament this year.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2012
Ankur Paliwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
European Union (EU), Biofuel, Energy Policy, Energy, Renewable Energy, Fuel Efficiency, Bio Fuel Crops, Europe
Climate Change

U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide: survey

Three out of four U.S.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2012
Deborah Zabarenko
Reuters
Tags:
United States Of America (US), Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Coal, Supreme Court, Politics, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Biofuel
Energy

Tracking clean energy progress

Tracking Clean Energy Progress is an early except of the forthcoming Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 (ETP2012). The report tracks progress in the development and deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies in the power generation, industry, buildings, and transport sectors.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2012
International Energy Agency
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Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Technology, India, Global, Industry, Buildings, Transport, Carbon Capture and Storage, Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Intensity, Biofuel, Fuel Economy Standards, Low Carbon Economy
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Global food policy report 2011

This is first new annual IFPRI publication provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. Highlights important developments in food policy that occurred in 2011 and takes a look forward into 2012.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Security, India, Global, Natural Disasters, Climate Change, Agriculture, Nutrition, Biofuel, Health, Land Degradation
Climate Change

Climate Change to Affect Corn Prices, Study Says

Researchers have found that climate change is likely to have far greater influence on the volatility of corn prices over the next three decades than factors that recently have been blamed for price

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Climate Change, Maize, Agriculture, Biofuel, United States Of America (US), Canada, Global Warming, Energy, Farmers, Ethanol
Biodiversity

Changes in the diversity of soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi after cultivation for biofuel production in a Guantanamo (Cuba) tropical system

The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a key, integral component of the stability, sustainability and functioning of ecosystems. In this study, we characterised the AMF biodiversity in a native vegetation soil and in a soil cultivated with Jatropha curcas or Ricinus communis, in a tropical system in Guantanamo (Cuba), in order to verify if a change of land use to biofuel plant production had any effect on the AMF communities.

Publication Date: 
19/04/2012
Maria del Mar Alguacil, Emma Torrecillas, Guillermina Hernández & et al
PLoS ONE
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Biofuel, Micro Organisms, Biodiversity, Cuba, Land Use, Soil Capability, Ecosystems
Climate Change

Forestry biomass will increase greenhouse gas emissions, study warns

A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy product

Publication Date: 
19/04/2012
Environment News Network
Tags:
Energy, Forests, Biomass, Green House Gases, Biofuel, Soil Erosion, IPCC, Climate Mitigation, Renewable Energy
Climate Change

Australia's Qantas airline makes first commercial biofuel flight

SYDNEY: Australia's Qantas on Friday launched the nation's first commercial flight using a mixture of refined cooking oil, saying it would not survive if it relied solely on traditional jet fuel.

Publication Date: 
13/04/2012
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Biofuel, Australia, Air Transport, New Zealand, Renewable Energy, Energy, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Carbon Tax

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