Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.04.2008 The UK Competition Commission’s recommendation for a food chain ombudsman has been welcomed as a way of preventing big supermarkets from imposing unfair terms and conditions on producers in developing countries.

30.04.2008 Pop star Lily Allen is backing a campaign to boost green energy in homes and businesses around Britain.

29.04.2008 The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May.

29.04.2008 A new campaign has been launched targeting British company Vedanta over its plans to mine a sacred mountain in India.

26.04.2008 A World Bank-backed carbon-reduction programme in which concessional loans would be offered to developing country governments was compared to a "protection racket" by Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper at a meeting in London at the weekend.

26.04.2008 'Turning up the HEAT' is a series of interactive and virtual debates on climate change and corporate power starting May 8th. You can turn up in person to the events in London, Cardiff and Manchester or you can watch and participate online.

24.04.2008 The first World Malaria Day hears a call for action by UK civil society.
+ A long way to go

23.04.2008 The energy industry and government are investing in spin rather than renewable energy, said a leading development group ahead of a London meeting to discuss fuel poverty in light of rising gas and electricity bills.

23.04.2008 MPs have been urged by campaigners to support a crucial amendment to the Energy Bill which would encourage householders, businesses and communities to produce their own renewable energy.

22.04.2008 A "silent tsunami" unleashed by costlier food threatens 100 million people, the UN said on Tuesday, as UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain would seek changes to EU biofuels targets if it was shown that planting crops for fuel was driving up food prices.
+ ODI evidence on WFP and Global Food Security to the International Development Committee

22.04.2008 Two leading voices in the fight against climate change are at loggerheads over the weight given to "food miles" in a UK labelling system designed to encourage consumers to choose low-carbon products in shops and supermarkets.

22.04.2008 One of the three writers from Thailand whom the giant retailer Tesco is trying to suppress with serial libel writs has arrived in London at the invitation of the free speech body Index on Censorship.

21.04.2008 As the New Economics Foundation cast doubts on London's promise of a legacy for the poor from the 2012 Olympics, Nepali soldiers were told to shoot if necessary to "protect" the Olympic torch from pro-Tibet demonstrators.

21.04.2008 Unless cast-iron guarantees are built into plans for the 2012 Olympics, the Games will fail to leave the promised positive local legacy for the poorest residents of East London, according to a new report.

18.04.2008 Wherever you live, this year's Stop the Arms Trade Week (1-8 June) is a great opportunity to take coordinated local action against the weapons trade.

17.04.2008 Campaigners dressed as pirates stage a demonstration against moves by UK-based multinational corporation BP to control the development, production and depletion of Iraq’s oil reserves.

16.04.2008 The UK-based mining giant Anglo American has been accused of making huge profits while its operations are worsening poverty, damaging the environment and fuelling conflict and human rights abuse.

16.04.2008 Friday 18 April is Zimbabwean independence day - and the deadline for signing the Britain Zimbabwe Society petition to No 10 Downing Street against the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum-seekers.

14.04.2008 Almost nine out of ten Britons have no idea that biofuels will be added to their petrol from from 15 April.

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