In England, 15 climate change activists from protest group Food Not Fuel disrupted the BioFuel Expo & Conference in Newark. The protesters threw a cream pie in the face of Oliver Mace, CEO of BP Fuels. Protester Thomas Bradshaw told IndyTimes “Biofuels will be taking food from the mouths of the hungry when there are already 800 million people suffering from malnutrition. These corporations are effectively encouraging the erosion of valuable arable farmland and rainforests vital for combating climate change.” The hall was cleared and the scheduled speeches were postponed because of the disruption.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) announced that BP will provide $3 million to support the Energy Innovation Lab which focuses on clean energy. The BP China ...
In Belgium, the "Agrofools" group padlocked and chained four sets of doors at the World Biofuel Markets conference, and battled with security to chain a fifth door before being arrested. The outside g...
#1. A favorite story this year was the vote by the Vermont State Senate to approve hemp cultivation for the production of ethanol. That is ethanol, a/k/a/ "moonshine whiskey" and hemp a/k/a "marijuana...
In Mauritania, one person was killed and several injured when food riots broke out in several provinces. Protesters were demonstrating over rising food prices, and an 18-year old was shot in Kansoaa b...
In Poland, the UN annual meeting on Climate Change opened in Poznan, with an 82-page deck of proposals from the UN's climate change czar, and open worries that the economic crisis will delay progress ...
Climate change experts and policy negotiators are concerned that the global financial crisis will dim prospects for a world trade agreement and a new climate change treaty. Elliot Diringer, a director...
