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London, Saturday December 8th 2007
Global Day of Action

Join the National Climate March - see http://campaigncc.org

BEFORE THE MARCH, please join the biofuels demo at 1030 outside the Tesco Metro at 17/25 Regent Street (on the corner with Jermyn Street).
See map below.

Tesco is an investor in Greenergy International and supplies Greenergy biofuels to its customers without explaining that they may be derived from palm oil grown by deforestation. This week's New Scientist reports that palm oil biodiesel from peatlands generates up to over 30 times as much CO2 as fossil diesel. Biofuelwatch are calling on Tesco to disinvest from Greenergy and cease to supply their fuels.

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This is part of the Cycle Protest before the national Climate march.

September 2007

This NASA satellite image measures carbon monoxide to show smoke from over 70,000 fires across South America during September 2007. Reports suggest that 2007 has been one of the worst years on record for fires in large parts of South America, including in the Brazilian Amazon, Paraguay, Bolivia and northern Argentina. The biofuel boom is raising commodity prices and large landowners have been burning forest to clear more land for soya. Brazil's sugar ethanol expansion is putting further pressures on the Amazon, too, primarily because it displaces cattle ranching and other agricultural activities elsewhere and pushes them into the rainforest. Recurrent drought in large parts of South America suggests that, due to deforestation, the Amazon forest may be close to the point where it can no longer maintain the rainfall cycle on which it depends, in which case much or all of the rainforest could die back and large parts of the Americas could dry up.

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London, Saturday December 8th 2007 Global Day of Action

BEFORE THE MARCH, please join the biofuels demo at 1030 outside the Tesco Metro at 17/25 Regent Street (on the corner with Jermyn Street). See map below.

London, Saturday December 8th 2007
Global Day of Action

BEFORE THE MARCH, please join the biofuels demo at 1030 outside the Tesco Metro at 17/25 Regent Street (on the corner with Jermyn Street).
See map below.