Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Food Vs. Fuel" produced 27 items.
| 1. Stepping in other people's forests | May 19, 2011 |
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The EU may be doing more to protect its own forests, but, say campaigners, it is not doing enough to stop deforestation in other parts of the world. Environmentalists may... |
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| 2. EU urged to adjust biofuel policy | April 28, 2011 |
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Leading economist says changes in land use caused by biofuel mean that the EU's policy may cause more emissions than thought. The European Union should adjust course on... | |
| 3. Next-generation biofuel needs old-style policies | March 10, 2011 |
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Europe's half-hearted attempt to help next-generation biofuel has clearly failed. Among the technologies most capable of helping Europe's transformation to a post-carbon... | |
| 4. Stop environmental protectionism | June 24, 2010 |
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The EU should encourage more forestry in Europe, not attack commercial plantations in third countries.
The European Commission deserves credit for its efforts to solidify... | |
| 5. Commission seeks to remove confusion over biofuel policy | June 10, 2010 |
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Director-general calls for ‘technical clarity', while consultation on effects on land use is to be launched. The European Commission has to give more “clarity” to its... | |
| 6. Study casts doubt on benefits of growing crops for biofuels | April 1, 2010 |
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A study for the European Commission suggests growing biofuel crops can create more greenhouse gases than it saves. Doubts have been cast on the EU's biofuel policy in the... |
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| 7. More openness needed about scientific data | April 1, 2010 |
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Biofuel is causing major problems for the Commission. Biofuel was once seen as the ‘green gold' answer to climate change, but increasingly it is a problem policy for the... | |
| 8. EU agency warns about damage from biofuels | November 13, 2008 |
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An EU agency has warned that increasing the amount of energy obtained from crops and plants could damage the environment, unless policymakers fail to put strong safeguards in... |
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| 9. Biofuels 'greener' than thought | October 29, 2008 |
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New report improves biofuels' green credentials, but environmentalists believe the calculations understate the risks.
A European Commission report has found that some... | |
| 10. Truth about biofuels is not inconvenient | October 23, 2008 |
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A gauntlet thrown down for a biofuel-sceptic, Transport and the Environment. Last summer, the ‘Gallagher Review on the indirect effects of biofuels' to the UK government... | |
| 11. Biofuels can result in more emissions | October 9, 2008 |
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A government- as opposed to industry-sponsored study shows the real dangers of biofuels. In last week's European Voice (Letters, 2-8 October), Javier Salgado-Leirado, the... | |
| 12. Sustainability criteria targets approved | September 4, 2008 |
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Biofuels should produce 50% less of greenhouse gas emissions by 2017. The EU's member states made a breakthrough yesterday (3 September) in agreeing green safeguards to... | |
| 13. France seeks biofuels compromise | July 17, 2008 |
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European Union officials are today (17 July) continuing their search for agreement on the divisions that have emerged over biofuels, driven by the doubts that recent... |
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| 14. Commission defends biofuels targets | July 10, 2008 |
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MEPs call for changes to Commission proposal; UK report calls for slower expansion of biofuels. The Commission has defended its plans to increase support for biofuels,... | |
| 15. Combustible Piebalgs | April 18, 2008 |
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Careful who you quote. When it comes to the combustible subject of biofuels, the European Commission is increasingly out of step with other multinational institutions. The... |
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| 16. Green member states fight for tougher biofuel standards | March 27, 2008 |
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Group of states demands greater greenhouse gas saving from biofuels to be used for transport. A group of EU countries will push for tougher green safeguards on biofuels at a... |
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| 17. Not all biofuels are bad | March 19, 2008 |
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While I agree entirely that you should not “wreck the planet” as the advert placed by the BirdLife International in European Voice (28 February-5 March) stated, it is... | |
| 18. Heatwave puts water in shade | February 28, 2008 |
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The fight against climate change has heightened concern about floods and drought. But, writes Jennifer Rankin, some of the steps taken to combat global warming might harm... | |
| 19. Biofuel could send food into orbit | January 31, 2008 |
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Jan Ziegler, who prepared a special report for the United Nations, has described the diversion of land from food to create biofuels as nothing less than “a crime against... | |
| 20. EU and Brazil agree joint biofuels research | November 15, 2007 |
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The European Commission and the Brazilian government have agreed to carry out joint research into the next generation of biofuels to help Europe meet its targets on... | |
