Agrofuels

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We get a majority world perspective on the climate emergency from Goldman Prize winner Ricardo Navarro. Navarro won the Goldman prize for sustainable development back in 1995 for his work as founder and director of the El Salvador Centre for Appropriate Technology and he is a former director of Friends of the Earth International.

Here he talks about how a new regional Movement of Climate Change Affected Peoples is responding to the pressures of climate change with awareness raising, permaculture techniques and low-level technologies as well as putting up resistance to inappropriate development. He also gives us his wider perspective on the United Nations climate talks which he has been attending since 1992.

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We continue our coverage of the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland where the big issue on the table is “how to reduce emissions from deforestation”? The big push from investors is to incorporate forests into the carbon markets, but this approach is riddled with problems. Friends of the Earth International has warned that this would “create the climate regime’s biggest ever loophole.” We speak to Miguel Lovera, chair of the Global Forest Coalition about his concerns and his proposals for an alternative way forward.

Meanwhile in Brussels, European country delegates have been agreeing new targets for agrofuel for road transport. This will increase deforestation and emissions from other changes in land use. We speak to Robert Bailey of Oxfam International and ask why this disaster has been allowed to happen.

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A moratorium on coal-fired power plants without carbon capture and storage … should be the rallying issue for young people. It seems to me that [they] should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty coal-fired power plants. – Professor James Hansen, 8 July 2007

A report on this year’s Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent including interviews with some of those involved in some of the associated direct actions.

• Camp for Climate Action
• Indymedia full coverage
• 228 MPs ask for a public inquiry into Kingsnorth
• Environment Audit Committee – report on Carbon Capture & Storage
• The Poyry Report – the UK does not need new coal or nuclear if we meet our renewable energy targets
• Cashing In On Coal – RBS, UK Banks and the Global Coal Industry
• Letters to Cargill from communities in Brazil, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea

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Biofuels have been condemned as a “crime against humanity” by the outgoing UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Zeigler. We speak to Deepak Rughani of Biofuelwatch and find out:

• Why agrofuels have been responsible for food riots, land grabs and increasing hunger around the globe
• Why the Gallagher report and others underestimate the impact of biofuels on climate change
• Why the Gallagher report is not independent
• Why we need to listen to the global calls for a moratorium on biofuels rather than industry and government’s suggestion of a slow down

Ahead of this year’s Camp for Climate Action we speak to Connor O’Brien about the movement’s plans for sustainable living, education, and shutting down the coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. And we end the programme with a rough mix of “Soul Not Coal” a song written for the Camp by The Carbon Town Cryer.

• Camp for Climate Action
• Climate Camp Video
• Biofuelwatch
• Leaked World Bank report on biofuels link to food price rises