Almuth Ernsting reports on the need for protest against the government’s and the EU’s policies on biofuels.

Corporate Europe Observatory reports on how industry is using the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTFP) to push for a bigger guaranteed market in biofuels, to the detriment of the environment and the world’s poor.

Friends of the Earth release the results of a survey into public attitudes on biofuels.

Enthusiasm for biofuels is misplaced. It’s not too late for Gordon Brown to change his mind about them – and he must, writes Mark Lynas.

Spanning the globe in search of new sources of profit and fuel, oil companies, banks, agribusiness, biotech companies and governments have joined in a ‘green gold’ rush. Corporate Watch looks at the role of UK agriculture and corporations in the agrofuel frenzy.

Environmentalists have been voicing their concerns about biofuels for ages – Mark Lynas among them. t’s about time the EU and other governments started to listen.

A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster, writes George Monbiot.

The nef on a recent study, published by a coalition of major UK poverty and environmental groups, examining the impact climate change could have on Asia and the Pacific, home to over 60% of the world’s population.

A controversy is brewing at the University of California in Berkeley where petroleum giant BP, formerly British Petroleum, is planning to give $500 million in funds to the university for research. The deal would fund the development of “sustainable, commercially viable, and environmentally friendly” sources of energy. The newly created Energy Biosciences Institute claims to promote research into biofuels, as well as bacteria that would increase energy production from oil and coal.

Biofuels will indeed make a big difference in improving our environment, writes Megan Tady —”our” being the United States, the EU, and nobody else.

Developing nations are being pushed to grow crops for ethanol, rather than food – all thanks to political expediency, writes George Monbiot.

Across the world multinationals’ profits and the biofuels industry are hiking up the price of basic foodstuffs. This inflation is hitting the poorest hard, writes Carlo Morelli

EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for ‘agrofuels’. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world’s poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming, argues Oscar Reyes.