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Brazil president defends biofuels: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has rejected allegations that biofuels are responsible for the recent rise in global food prices.
French push for EU food response: France is urging EU countries to come up with a global initiative on food security in the wake of violence linked to price rises in basic foodstuffs.
Dot Earth: Money for India's 'Ultra Mega' Coal Plants Approved : The troubling tension between propelling prosperity and limiting climate risks in a world still wedded to fossil fuels is on full display this week. India’s Tata Power group just gained important financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, for its planned $4 billion, 4-billion watt “Ultra Mega” coal-burning power plant complex in Gujarat state.
Priced Out of the Market: The world's food situation is bleak, and shortsighted policies in the United States and other wealthy countries - which are diverting crops to environmentally dubious biofuels - bear much of the blame.
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Welcome: With seed funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Global and Comparative Knowledges Project, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and the Biodesign Institute, CSPO announces the creation of a new initiative in Energy, Society, and Policy.
New CSPO Affiliate in ESP: Arthur Mason, assistant professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU, will join CSPO as an affiliate faculty member to co-lead the new initiative in Energy, Society, and Policy.
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Dangerous assumptions: How big is the energy challenge of climate change? The technological advances needed to stabilize carbon-dioxide emissions may be greater than we think, argue Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley and Christopher Green.
Technology alone will not solve energy crisis: "There is a strong sense of déjà vu in the bleak picture that the International Energy Agency (IEA) –– sometimes described as "the rich world's energy watchdog" –– painted last week of likely global energy consumption over the next two decades, and its consequences for climate change," writes David Dickson, Director of SciDev.Net
Biofuels: Let's look before we leap: "A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith," writes David Dickson, Director of SciDev.Net
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ASU Meeting: The ASU Energy, Society, and Policy initiative will hold a meeting from 12-2 on April 28. If you are interested in social and humanistic studies of energy systems and policy, please contact Clark Miller or Arthur Mason.
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