Conservation & Environment News - Week 22/04/08 - 28/04/08

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Summit calls for climate targets - BBC Bews 23/04/08

European and Japanese leaders at their annual summit in Tokyo have called for "ambitious and binding" targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Butterflies at record low after wet summer of 2007 - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 24/04/08

Britain’s butterflies need good weather in the coming months to recover from last year’s dreadful summer, the wettest since records began.

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Biofuels not at root of food inflation: Potash CEO - Reuters 24/04/08

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Government policies spurring biofuel production are not to blame for grain shortages and food inflation, said the chief executive of Potash Corp, the world's largest fertilizer company.

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How to solve the global food crisis - BBC News 28/04/08

The world economy has many problems but none more pressing than what is happening to food prices.