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Dry weather having devastating effect on crops

Wheat and other crops hit by drought Lack of rain is becoming a real problem in the east of England (25/05/2011). The wheat is not growing. If yields are cut, food prices will be hit. This BBC News video report sums up the situation: BBC News – Dry weather having devastating effect on crops. [Plus [...]

The Stockholm Memorandum on sustainable development

The Stockholm Memorandum on sustainable development From: 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, Stockholm. 16-19 May 2011 Read it here: The-Stockholm-Memorandum.pdf application/pdf Object. From the memorandum. The Earth system is complex. There are many aspects that we do not yet understand. However, we are the first generation with the insight of the new global [...]

EU forests consultation

green paper published 01/03/10 : Preparing forests for climate change
Consultation open until 31 July 2010

What is land for?

The food, fuel and climate change debate : edited by Michael Winter and Matt Lobley, published by Earthscan; The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (Relu) at Newcastle University

The environmentalist

Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment; 88, 16 November 2009; Climate change and British woodland

Euractiv network

EU news and policy reports, January 2010, including:
news: biofuel, wind power, climate, art and chemicals
policy: environment, climate and agriculture

Copenhagen

COP15 climate conference – is this the end?

Climate change danger

strong evidence; a call to action

Climate change talks before Copenhagen

Diary of the Barcelona talks reported in The Economist

Scotland: greenhouse gas

Report published in Global Change Biology 15(9), p2321-2332; 2009

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