At the Camp David Summit, G-8 Leaders recognized that the development of and universal access to environmentally safe, sustainable, secure, and affordable sources of energy is essential to global economic growth and to their...

In a landmark decision the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed on 11 May 2012 a set of far-reaching global guidelines aimed at helping governments safeguard the rights of people to own or access land, forests and...

A climate-change law passed by the Mexican Legislature will be one of the strongest national climate-change laws on the books, environmentalists said. The bill passed in Mexico's lower house on 19 April with a vote of 128-10 and...

Get ready to hear a lot about pennycress biofuel this year. Pennycress sounds like a name that belongs to an unassuming little weed commonly found along roadsides – and it does – but a while back the U.S. Department of...

A three-day Bio-energy Forum for the ECOWAS Region, held from March 19 to 21, 2012 was successfully concluded in Bamako, the Malian capital, as part of efforts to support the development of regional and national bio-energy...

Some of the EU’s millions of euros of energy aid to the developing world could be spent on gas projects, EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has told EurActiv. But biofuels, nuclear and coal energy will not be funded. “I...