Reuters: IMF Head calls for halt to turning food into fuel, warns worst of hunger is yet to come (Apr 18): here says the head of the IMF

Last year's study: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jun/19/china.usnews - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

This year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7347638.stm - The University of California team will report their work in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.

This conference is taking place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on April 3rd and is open to anyone with an interest in the development of our understanding of climate change, including researchers, teachers, students and campaigners.

The conference will explore:

How this potentially catastrophic situation has arisen

How societies, polities and cultures have and can sustain themselves in adverse conditions

Learning from the experiences of past and current societies which have coped with severe climate or environmental change

Dear Campaigners,

My name is Emre Soyer.
I would like to let you know about a global, non-profit project that aims to help those who are working on issues regarding climate change and those who organize events about global warming. Its main purpose is to make possible a global collective action.

The project is a web platform called www.inthemorningofaday.com , which consists of two main parts, a Global Calendar of Events about Global Warming and a Song for Earth:

The attached charts show

(i) how poorly temperate agrofuels (liquid biofuels from crops or forestry, excluding algae) compare with wood used directly to replace coal as a land-use for mitigation. In simple terms the latter was found to be 5x-10x more effective. "WTW biomass options slide" taken from Concawe Well-to-Wheels study (2007)

(ii) how biomass (and some hydro dams) are a very poor land-use for energy compared with wind, solar or geothermal - orders of magnitude poorer. "Energy Footprints" taken from Pimentel et al. (2002)

Hi All

Here’s a link to a great little film: “The Story of Stuff”. http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
It’s from Free Range Studios, makers of the acclaimed “The Meatrix”.

This page is envisaged as mainly for coordinating leafleting but please use it to post any activity related to building the Dec 8th demo that you would like others to know about and join in with.

Most recent world public opinion on climate change:

BBC: Man causing climate change - poll (25/9/07)

AP/Woods Institute: Americans want more action taken (27/9/07)

BBC: Most ready for 'green sacrifices' (5/11/07)

Hello All

This is from Guardian online (Tuesday 5 June) and just goes to show you that wild weather is not the only cause of displacement. This scenario is really shocking and distressing. All the more reason to reject biofuels as a solution.

Massacres and paramilitary land seizures behind the biofuel revolution

· Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit
· Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca

Oliver Balch in Mutat and Rory Carroll in Cartagena
Tuesday June 5, 2007
The Guardian