Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Europe'
Biofuel prices and farewell
ICIS has a series of price reports to assess biofuels markets globally. We now cover ETBE, biodiesel and fuel-grade ethanol prices in Europe, Asia, the USA and Latin America. In addition to price reporting, ICIS also provides news coverage of...
Consumers want greater fuel efficiency
This is a little old, and I'm only linking to it now for our American readers, the Europeans, will of course be on top of this sort of thing... There is a recent poll which shows there is considerable appetite...
Biofuel Cities Europe has its own forums now
Biofuel-cities Europe has its own forums now. Naturally they are biased towards the European side of the Atlantic, but if their forums are as useful as their email newsletters then they should be worth a look. You have to register,...
Biofuels Cities newsletter updated
Check out the latest Biofuel Cities e-newsletter. Interesting stuff about the feasibility of a global biofuel standard and some useful news to start with....
US exports to EU threaten global biodiesel - EBB
The European Biodiesel board is worried enough about the US exports of biodiesl to the Europe to start drafting a complaint to the World Trade Organisation about it, and warned the US National Biodisel Board meeting in Orlando, Florida that...
The next two weeks are going to be important for biofuels in Europe
The next two weeks are going to be important for biofuels in Europe. Setting the tone for policy we have the UK Royal Society calling for Biofuels to meet a 50% reduction in greenhouse gasses than the fossil fuels they...
Europe is facing a biofuel feedstock crunch
Here's an American perspective on the European Biofuel feedstock situation. He says Europe is facing a biofuel feedstock crunch, that the same could happen in the US too....
Biofuels Cities update
If you don't know about the EU's Biofuel Cities group, you probably should. The fifth and latest email newsletter is out now....
European Ethanol Association
There is a new trade group designed to promote industrial ethanol in the European Union... called the Industrial Ethanol Association. It has an interesting view of fair trade in ethanol......
The carbon footprint of biofuels and petrofuels
SRIC’s Carbon Footprint of Biofuels & Petrofuels report suggests that... land use is so critical [to the environmental impact of biofuels] that – at least from a global warming viewpoint – northern European farmers should plant trees and burn petrodiesel...
Biofuels are bad for the planet (again)
Trans National Insitute (which calls itself a world wide fellowship of committed scholar-activists (they'd hardly be uncommited)) has published Paving the way for agrofuels: an unsustainable path It starts by stating: In the face of the climate change threat and...
Biofuel Cities newsletter
Biofuel Cities is a European initiative designed to get more cities in Europe to use more biofuels... there's a newsletter too....
Video of EU energy policy
Here's a video from the European Commission about its policy on sustainable energy and replacing petrol with clean alternatives......
Wheat prices up and Brazil worries about ethanol
Rich pickings today on Planet Ark, the price of wheat in Europe is soaring, apparently because of a drought in Australia. Didn't know we imported much wheat from Australia, mostly lamb. The absolute prices for wheat in the US quoted...
Fuel efficiency to be main focus at Frankfurt Motor Show
Fuel efficiency to be main focus at Frankfurt Motor Show, according to Product reviews net. This has to be a good thing. There is little point in people switching to biofuels (which are very resource intensive -- it takes as...
Green diplomacy or hard edged national interest?
Green diplomacy or hard edged national interest? Only someone like Lula from Brazil could do both at the same time in his visit to a number of European capitals, according to Biopact....
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming, but will there be enough grain to feed the world through the winter, and drive them to the markets? The numbers for the US have not settled down yet. In March, according...
EU opens distillation tender
EU opens distillation tender to convert unwanted wine into industrial ethanol, according to the Turkish Daily News. The distillation will help take excessive wine off the market and support prices in Europe. As I said in July, this is not...
US' Sweet adiction to sugar farmers
The price of the US' sweet addiction to sugar farmers and the potential for further distorting the market for ethanol in the US is explored in a post over on the Politics of Food. Rachel C. Dechenne says in a...
let us farm set aside land Europe farmers say
Let us farm set aside land, Europe's farmers are saying to the EU, according to Farm Policy.com. Currently about 8% of EU farming land lies fallow under a decision in the 1990s to eliminate grain surpluses. Now these surpluses could...
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