EU and poor nations clash on Kyoto renewal

Divisions between the EU and groups of developing countries over the future of the Kyoto protocol have again emerged during the latest round of international climate change talks in Bonn.

New global plan to save oil carbon emissions

Collaborative investigations
Fake carbon credits boost pollution in the EU
LAST UPDATE FROM "NEFCO": EU to use 252 million carbon credits in 2012. INVESTIGATION BACKGROUND: the EU banned Kyoto’s fake carbon credits. Major companies across Europe continue to use fake credits to keep on polluting. How the business of climate change affects public health, environment and money.[...]

Biofuels: who will they profit?
LAST UPDATE FROM "PETER SCHOLTENS": Biofuels a threat, not a solution - Kenyan woodlands safe from Jatropha biofuel threat - INVESTIGATION BACKGROUND: Westerners invest in biofuels in developing countries to meet the increasing demand for eco-energy. Experts analysis and field reports show controversial benefits for local communities and the environment.[...]
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Why 'good' companies embrace 'bad' credits
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR / IPS - Europe’s carbon trading system was supposed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But at least one of its methods for doing so may actually have increased those emissions.[...]

Tanzania Biofuel Project’s Barren Promise
IPS / NRC HANDELSBLAD - An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.[...]

Biofuels boom in Africa...
THE GUARDIAN - British firms have acquired more land in Africa for controversial biofuel plantations than companies from any other country.[...]