Full Coverage: Energy

28.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (OneWorld) - Far away and close to home the growing world food crisis is taking a toll. While Americans are increasingly shocked at their rising grocery bills, hunger threatens lives and stability in several developing countries.

28.04.2008 The significant shifts driven by climate change in the polar regions present new opportunities and pressures for development. These are challenges which demand holistic, integrated responses (PDF briefing).

28.04.2008 A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to Transparency International.

26.04.2008 A World Bank-backed carbon-reduction programme in which concessional loans would be offered to developing country governments was compared to a "protection racket" by Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper at a meeting in London at the weekend.

25.04.2008 Certification alone cannot guarantee that agrofuels are being produced sustainably. 'Sustainability' is being used as a smokescreen, shows a new report (PDF).
From: Friends of the Earth Europe

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

23.04.2008 The energy industry and government are investing in spin rather than renewable energy, said a leading development group ahead of a London meeting to discuss fuel poverty in light of rising gas and electricity bills.

23.04.2008 Rising energy and environmental costs may prevent nuclear power from being a sustainable alternative energy source in the fight against global warming, according to a new study.
From: Science Daily

23.04.2008 It's the usual story: big promises and grandiose plans for Africa - this time for the world's largest hydroelectric project. Then reality sets in: as discussions begin, the host country, Congo, isn't there.

23.04.2008 MPs have been urged by campaigners to support a crucial amendment to the Energy Bill which would encourage householders, businesses and communities to produce their own renewable energy.

22.04.2008 Amid growing concern over global food insecurity, Kimberly Ann Elliott urges the U.S. government to cut subsidies for biofuel production, "one of the few policy levers available in the short run to relieve demand pressures."

21.04.2008 Foods such as beef and dairy make a far deeper impression on a consumer's carbon footprint than the distance the food has travelled.
From: New Scientist

21.04.2008 The European commission is backing away from its insistence on imposing a compulsory 10% quota of biofuels in all petrol and diesel by 2020.
From: The Guardian

18.04.2008 George Bush has finally woken up to the reality of climate change, writes Tony Juniper. But is his modest target now too little, too late?
From: The Guardian

17.04.2008 Campaigners dressed as pirates stage a demonstration against moves by UK-based multinational corporation BP to control the development, production and depletion of Iraq’s oil reserves.

17.04.2008 The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.
From: The Telegraph

15.04.2008 Two companies are starting a new project to use carbon dioxide emissions from cement manufacture to make biodiesel... with a little help from some microorganisms.
From: AutoblogGreen

14.04.2008 Scientists tasked with advising the European Union's policy-makers have called for a target on promoting the greater use of biofuels to be dropped.

14.04.2008 Almost nine out of ten Britons have no idea that biofuels will be added to their petrol from from 15 April.

12.04.2008 Global wind power capacity rose 27 percent in 2007 to more than 94,100 megawatts, with Germany remaining the world leader.