Agrofuels

    Biofuelwatch Declaration

    Caution urged against proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation and soil reclamation.

    For centuries, productivism and industrial capitalism have been destroying our cultures, exploiting our labour and poisoning our environment.

    Now, with the climate crisis, the Earth is saying “enough”, “ya basta”!

    Once again, the people who created the problem are telling us that...

    The crisis that we are seeing today is not only the financial crisis - this is only one aspect of a much bigger systemic crisis that encompasses the social crisis, or crisis of inequality, the financial and the ecological crises, says Susan George in this video lecture, and suggests radical...

    Climate change is a social issue and it will always be connected with concrete, specific struggles over fossil fuel exploitation, pollution, health, agriculture, livelihoods or access to energy.

    The environmental movement has chalked up some significant victories, but the continuing appeal of false market-based solutions, that exacerbate the climate crisis, point to the need for a radical climate justice movement.

    It is a long time since activists spray painted ‘We are...

    Corporate Europe Observatory
    Brazil's agribusiness is lobbying to make the case, but people and the environment are paying the price.

    In spite of overwhelming criticism of agrofuels as a 'solution' to climate change, sugarcane ethanol is often seen as the one more positive exception. The Brazilian government is...

    Tamra Gilbertson
    Tamra Gilbertson Transnational Instituteko ekintzaileak dio klima aldaketak baliabideekiko «menpekoago» egingo gaituela. Ekologistak Martxanek antolatutako Nork nori zor? Zor Ekologikoari buruzko Nazioarteko Biltzarrean karbono dioxido gutxiagorekin bizi daitekeen gizarte eredua aurkeztu du....
    The formerly state owned oil Company Petron should be re-Filipinised to form the core of the reconstituted Department of Energy that would be tasked with comprehensive planning to diversify energy sources, bring down prices, and manage energy consumption to mitigate climate change.

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    Biofuel production did not create, but only exacerbated the global food crisis that had been building up for years, as policies promoted by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO encouraged the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers.

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