Call to abandon biofuels targets
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The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy  reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate  change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food  prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Fuel subsidies that allow trawlers to "plunder" vulnerable fish stocks should be scrapped, claim leading scientists.
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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By EASTON, Paul; MORRALL, Amanda  Ngai Tahu is taking aim at increasingly big dairy farms, which kaiwhakahaere (chairman) Mark Solomon says are ruining the environment.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Growing capacity could break the heart of ethanol investors.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 5 (IPS) - As a guest at the G8 summit this week in Germany,  Brazilian President Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva will present  arguments to convince the leaders of the world's eight  richest countries of the importance of biofuels in the fight  against global warming.
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The European Commission said Monday it would propose tighter restrictions on biofuels next week amid mounting concerns that the energy source can cause unintended environmental and social problems.
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An international group of corporate leaders calls for global targets on reducing greenhouse emissions.
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Britons will be asked to "leave it off" by a campaign showing the link between energy use and climate change.
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Europe must ensure biofuels do not become an environmental threat in coming years, the EU trade chief says.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia , Dec 13 (IPS) - Green groups hoping that the social and  environmental cost of biofuels would get an airing at the United  Nations climate change conference here are a disappointed lot.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidies, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.
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Energy experts urged nations to move swiftly away from the use of coal and provide new options for the two billion people who still mostly cook in the dark on wood or dung fires.
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Washington state legislators are considering a bill to promote a biofuels industry in the state and require state-owned fleet vehicles to reduce use of fossil fuels.