Global Initiatives
| G8 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit - Double jeopardy: responding to high food and fuel prices For the first time since 1973, the world is being hit by a combination of record oil and food prices. Such record oil and food prices are a destabilizing element for the global economy because of their potentially severe growth,... |
Jul 2008 |
| Approaches and initiatives concerning sustainability criteria for bioenergy – Draft version At its third meeting the GBEP Technical Working Group (TWG) decided to establish a GBEP Task Force to work towards the development of a voluntary international sustainability framework of principles for bioenergy. The result of... |
Jun 2008 |
| Global monitoring report 2008: MDGs and the environment – Agenda for inclusive and sustainable development This joint report prepared by the World Bank and IMF contains two main parts: monitoring the MDGs and a special focus on climate change.The upward pressure on food prices reflects the increasing use of corn and other food items... |
Apr 2008 |
| Opportunities and challenges of biofuel production for food security and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean As an agency dedicated to the generation, analysis and dissemination of knowledge and in response to the Kyoto Protocol, the Johannesburg Declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and the Millennium... |
Apr 2008 |
| A sustainable biofuels consensus In the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, a group of women and men, based in 12 different countries and heavily involved, from different perspectives, with biofuels met during 24-28 March 2008.... |
Mar 2008 |
| Adaptation to climate change – Where do we go from Bali? - An analysis of the COP13 and the key issues on the road to a new climate change treaty Adaptation to climate change featured very prominently during the Bali UN climate conference in December 2007. Given the accelerating threats of climate change in particular for developing countries, immediately increased... |
Mar 2008 |
| Making certification work for sustainable development: the case of biofuels Biofuels, fuels derived from biomass, are among the bioenergy alternatives which are being considered and are currently viewed, if carefully developed, as one of the means of slowing down the process of global warming and... |
Feb 2008 |
| Key messages from the expert meeting on bioenergy policy, markets and trade and food security and global perspectives on fuel and food security This paper contains the 12 key messages/points for action, ranked in declining order of priority, proposed to Ministers for urgent consideration in their policy development and action by the expert meeting on bioenergy policy,... |
Feb 2008 |
| White paper on internationally compatible biofuel standards This White Paper was drafted by an international task force consisting of experts on biofuels standards from the standardization bodies of the Tripartite Agreement amongst Brazil, the European Union and the USA. The executive... |
Dec 2007 |
| The biofuels controversy The coming of age of biofuels is happening against the background of growing awareness of the urgent need for changing the present unsustainable pattern of energy use, characterized by a profligate (mis)use of abundant and cheap... |
Nov 2007 |
