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Energy and Health (a series of six papers in The Lancet, Sept.−Oct. 2007)
►Currently 2 billion people do not have access to clean energy and live
in energy poverty. Energy policies worldwide fail to take account of the effect
of climate change, our use or misuse of energy sources, and the impact on human
health.
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1. A
global perspective on energy: health effects and injustices
Water, Electricity and the Poor:
Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (World Bank, 2005)
Map of global electricity access, 2005
 Africa at night
BIOFUELS
Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's
access to land (iied and FAO, 2008)
The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 − Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities
(FAO, 2008)
Bio-fuelling Poverty: Why the EU renewable-fuel target may
be disastrous for poor people (Oxfam,
2007)
Water implications
of biofuel crops: understanding tradeoffs and identifying options (IWMI, 2009)
Another Inconvenient Truth: How biofuel policies are
deepening poverty and accelerating climate change
(Oxfam, 2008)
Biofuels − crime against humanity' (BBC News, 2007)
Will biofuel leave the poor hungry? (BBC News, 2007)
Biofuels (SciDev.Net)
Biofools (The Economist, 2009)
Listen: Costing the Earth (BBC Radio 4 Science Series)
Biofuels − As green as they seem? (17 May 2007)
Food versus Fuel (4 October 2007)
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