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Biofuels send food costs soaring: report
05/07/2008
Sydney Morning Herald: BIOFUELS have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent - far more than previously estimated - a confidential World Bank report reveals. The damning, unpublished, assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally respected economist at the global financial body. The figure emphatically contradicts the United States Government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3 per cent to food price rises. It will add to ...
read complete story...Illegal Logging Thriving In Peru
04/07/2008
Sky News: Satipo is a place where disputes are often settled by the gun, and international concerns over conservation and climate change are of no interest to those with the power here - the illegal logging barons. There is only one road that leads towards the town, out of the central jungle. The supposed timber and police checkpoints along the route are always unmanned. A constant stream of lorries loaded with tree trunks and freshly cut planks snake along the winding roads. The whirr ...
read complete story...Indigenous people ask G8 for climate talk inclusion
04/07/2008
Reuters: Indigenous communities from around the world urged G8 rich nations on Friday to help them participate in global climate change talks, saying they contributed least to but are most affected by global warming. Clad in colorful traditional robes, 26 representatives from countries including the United States, Canada, and Japan, along with some 400 students, activists, and academics, met on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. The island is the venue of the July 7-9 Group of Eight ...
read complete story...United Kingdom: Poll shows ignorance over Rainforest role
04/07/2008
Telegraph: Most people are ignorant of the crucial role the rainforests play in keeping the global climate stable, a survey has revealed. More than 60 per cent of people questioned thought air travel and domestic heating produced more greenhouse gases than the destruction of the forests. In fact deforestation releases more CO2 into the atmosphere each year than all of the world's planes, trains and automobiles put together. The survey commissioned by the Rainforest Foundation UK ...
read complete story...Biofuels 'caused food price spike'
04/07/2008
Press Association: Biofuels have caused world food prices to go up by 75%, it has been reported. The Guardian said it has seen the figure in a confidential World Bank report which contradicts US government claims that using plants to produce fuel contributes less than 3% to food prices. According to the paper, sources believe the analysis - carried out by a respected economist at the global financial body - has not been published to avoid embarrassing US President George Bush. The leaked ...
read complete story...Biofuels 'have pushed food prices up 75%'
04/07/2008
Herald: The rush for biofuel altern-atives to petrol has had a huge impact on global food stocks, increasing the cost of food by 75%, according to an authoritative report for the World Bank. Details of the report come just ahead of the publication of the UK Government's own study on the impact of biofuels, expected to come to the similar conclusion that planting crops for fuel instead of food has had "significant" distorting effect on food prices. The report by Professor Ed ...
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