GEEREF to Invest €22 million in Africa and Asia
GLOBAL - The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) set up by the European Commission to provide clean energy to developing countries and economies in transition...

Commission Welcomes Poznan Conference Outcome
GLOBAL - The European Commission has welcomed the results of the UN climate change conference which ended on Monday in Poznan, Poland.

A Global, Green Biofuel Standard
GLOBE - Behind the debate were concerns that fuelling the world might be running into conflict with feeding the world and that being green at the fuel bowser might be linked with large...

Converting Lime-Treated Wheat Straw to Fuel
GENERAL - The limited availability of fossil fuel sources, worldwide rising energy demands and anticipated climate changes attributed to an increase of greenhouse gasses are important...

Food v. Fuel Debate Worldwide
GLOBAL - The food versus fuel debate is making waves around the world - from the parliaments in Africa to the university campuses of the USA.

UN: Strive For "Second Green Revolution"
GLOBE - The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, urged the international community to strive toward a "second green revolution" to ensure that environment-friendly and sustainable development...

Biofuels Not so Easy to Replace
GENERAL - To replace the global supply of ethanol and biodiesel-based biofuels added to the U.S. and European markets since 2005 would require an additional 1 million barrels of crude...

UN: Modern Agriculture a Waste of Resources
GLOBAL - A recent UN report states that although modern agricultural practices are highly productive, they tend to exhaust land and water resources. This has thereby led to vulnerability...

Special report: Climate change and food prices
GLOBAL - Is the climate to blame for the deadly combination of soaring prices and decline in supply - two factors threatening food security?

Time Bashes Ethanol, Calls It 'Clean Energy Scam'
GLOBAL - Magazine takes environmentalist position against corn fuel, says consequences of biofuel craze such as rain forest destruction 'could haunt the planet for generations,' writes...

Majors to Cooperate in Jatropha Biodiesel Project
GLOBAL - Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), Bayer CropScience AG and Daimler AG plan to jointly explore the potential for a biodiesel industry based on Jatropha (Jatropha curcas...

World Food Supply And Prices Unstable, Says Report
GLOBAL - Although food prices have decreased steadily since the Green Revolution, these gains could be drastically reversed by a combination of unbalanced income growth, climate change,...

European renewable revolution undermined by agro-fuels folly
GLOBAL - European plans to provide 20 per cent of EU energy from renewable sources - which are contained in a leaked draft of the EU renewable energy directive - have been warmly welcomed...

ESSAY- Food fleece: Biofuels are eco-bad and people-bad
US - Sigh. Another day, another inane strategy to fight global warming, writes Megan Tady.