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Biofuels were being seen as the sustainable answer to both global warming and a means to take the sting out of rising fuel prices. However, a report to be published on Monday 6 July 2008, is expected to force the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to rethink his support for using crops to keep Britain's cars and lorries running. Unexpectedly rapidly rising world food prices look set to force Gordon Brown to take U-turn over the use of crops such as corn, rapeseed, palm and soya to produ… Continue

Over the past 18 months the concerns about climate change in the UK have finally become main-stream. Our political establishment has finally had to start to take the looming environmental crisis seriously, due to media and public pressure. We have seen all political parties in opposition rewriting their green policies and touting them as being well ahead of the current government's plans. Meanwhile the government is planning to bring a first ever Climate Change Bill to parliament during 2008.… Continue