Let’s look at what happened in the last week or so.
On 4th July, The Guardian obtained an internal report from the World Bank estimating that biofuels have caused world food prices to rise by 75% (it seems I was far too optimistic on that previously).
On 5th July Gordon Brown gave an interview to The Guardian, [...]
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More Biofuels Madness and the Pathetic G8
Posted in Climate Change, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Climate Change, G8, Global Warming, Gordon Brown on 13 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A taste of things to come
Posted in Climate Change, EU, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Climate Change, Food prices, Global Warming, Gordon Brown on 23 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As world food prices escalate and the connection to biofuel generation is made with increasing frequency in the media, there is a growing sense of ‘I told you so’ with regard to the disaster of biofuels. But it isn’t quite that simple.
Yes, food prices are going up at a huge rate. Yes, demand for biofuel [...]
A Green Budget?
Posted in Climate Change, biofuels, tagged biofuels, budget 2008, Climate Change, emissions on 12 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Darling’s first budget was this week, and days before he announced it there was lots of speculation about a big green, tree-hugging, hippie-loving budget coming our way. Reading the section on these issues entitled “An Environmentally Sustainable World”, I think the verdict from Environmentalists is likely to be ‘Improving, but could do a lot [...]
Biofuels are not the answer
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, EU, Global Warming on 23 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently the Environmental Audit Committee group of MPs, led by the Conservative MP Tim Yeo, produced their report ‘Are Biofuels Sustainable?’ in which they tried to find out the answer to the title (1). Their conclusion? That there should be a moratorium on biofuels until “technology improves, robust mechanisms to prevent damaging land use change [...]
