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Biofuel production threatens food security in rural Uganda

Uganda is facing increasing demand for energy to meet social and economic development and improve the wellbeing of Ugandan...

29 September, 2014
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Waste-to-energy incinerators in Uruguay

Uruguay has significant problems relating to the management of industrial, commercial and domestic waste. In the capital Montevideo alone,...

11 September, 2014
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Oil palm plantations in Liberia

Expansion of palm oil production in Liberia by Malaysia-based industrial conglomerate Sime Darby is rapidly swallowing up farmlands and...

11 September, 2014
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The hidroituango mega dam in Colombia

Thousands of people are resisting the construction of the Hidroituango mega dam in Antioquia in the northwest of Colombia,...

11 September, 2014
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan

On March 11th 2011, an earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Japan. The earthquake, known as the Great East...

11 September, 2014
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The struggle against fracking in the UK

Rising energy costs combined with austerity and declining real incomes means that a growing proportion of ordinary British households...

11 September, 2014
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Australia’s Wandoan mega mine

In the mid 2000s the Australian economy entered into a mining exploration and export growth phase, involving a ten...

11 September, 2014
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Destructive impacts of energy sources

The different energy sources on which the current system is primarily reliant are also extremely harmful and destructive in...

11 September, 2014
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Good Energy Bad Energy – Introduction

Problems with the current energy system

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Who benefits, who pays?

The drivers and logic of the current energy system

Avoiding the climate trap

Towards a vision for a just, sustainable, climate-safe energy system

Creating a just and sustainable system

How to make change happen

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