Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Brazil'
Obama and Lula spoke about the tariff
Last week end Presidents Lula (Brazil) and Obama (US) met and had a conversation, According to the ICTSD, Brazil's Lula pressed Obama on Doha and on the US tariff policy for Brazilian ethanol this is ICTSD's take on the conversationThe...
Sugar cane ethanol and Brazil
There's a piece entitled Why the Promise of Biofuels is a lie by Robert Bryce. It is pretty anti biofuels, mainly ethanol, it doesn't talk about biodiesel. It is worth looking at for the way it pulls together a couple...
Can the EU square ethics with trade, should it even try in biofuels?
Can the EU square its desire to import only biofuels that conform to high ethical standards with the needs of free trade? That might sound like the kind of question we'd be covering in an ethics course (which thankfully we're...
Syngenta in high yeild sugar cane development
In a statement issued late last week, Syngenta said it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta´s innovation would reduce planting costs per hectare by some 15%, driven by...
Friends of the Earth and Brazil's sugar cane producers come to verbal blows
Friends of the Earth and Brazil's sugar cane producers come to verbal blows in a report on Autoblog green. FOE accuses the Brazilians of monocultre that damages the environment and the Brazilians respond....
Sao Paulo marshalls its biofuel resources
Over on Temas blog, my friend Keith Ripley has a piece on how the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo is getting all of its resources together to study the future of biofuels. This is big potatoes in a state which...
Brazil's sugar cane cutters to lose their jobs
According to the Guardian online, Brazil's sugar cane plantations are going to be increasingly mechanised, leading to job losses in the cane cutters. ...
Biofuels and food
It will be interesting to see if this FAO "Summit on food security", scheduled for 3 to 5 June 2008 at the FAO headquarters in Rome will get any further towards what to do about food supplies and fuel. Brazil's...
Biofuels are involved in "a crime against humanity again"
Biofuels are involved in a crime against humanity again. Only this time it’s NOT growing biofuels that would be the crime. Confused? World opinion certainly is. This time its Brazil's president Lula who says that discarding biofuels would be the...
Ethanol in the US
This is William Lemos, one of ICIS professional market watchers, talking about the state of the US ethanol market. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS) William has a good line on the Brazilain view of the US ethanol import...
Oh No, the Brazilians are coming (with an eye dropper)
Oh no, the Brazilains are coming, and they're going to inundate the US with 700m gal of ethanol in 2008, according to my pal William Lemos, reporting for ICIS news in Houston. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS) The...
Brazil wants to be a biodiesel superpower too
Brazil wants to be a biodiesel super power as it jockeys for biodisel market share, but may be derailed by the high price of soy, according to, John Waggoner, on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) John's...
Subsituting soy for corn leads to deforestation in Brazil
Subsituting soy for wheat leads to deforestation in Brazil, according to story in Science just before Christmas. According to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute' many American soy farmers are shifting to corn to qualify for the government subsidies. Since 2006,...
Brazil, the US and ethanol trade
Home news from abroad... if home is the US and abroad is Brazil....
Governments have responsibiltiy for biofuels policy
UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, has visited a bioethanol plant in Brazil, He too rowed back from the position of UN's special special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, who said biofuels are a crime against humanity. According to...
Florida Governor will lobby to lower US brazil ethanol tariff
Florida's Governor will lobby to lower US Brazil ethanol import tariff according to today's Planet Ark....
Water a problem for biofuels in china and india
Water shortages could follow Chinese and Indian plans to use sugarcane to make biofuels, according to a report from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) , carried on Planet Ark this morning. The report, Biofuels and implications for agricultural water...
Brazil wants biofuels tariff reduction fast tracked at WTO
Brazil wants the WTO to fast track tariff reductions for biofuels on the basis that they are an environmental good, according to Bridges Weekly Trade Digest. Brazil was making representations at Doha Round negotiations on liberalising trade in environmental goods,...
A way round the US ethanol tariff
One way around the US ethanol tariff is discussed over on No1203 a blog. Looks interesting, import non-fuel grade ethanol and then dehydrate it in the US... If that's going to cost less than $.054/gal it might be worth doing......
Abengoa restructures
Agbengoa Bioenergy is restructuring itself in a series of moves which look to be designed to maintain its profitability at a time when oil is at or close to record highs, and the price of corn is in the same...
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