Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'world'
The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Indusries on sustainability
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of...
Will water be the limiting factor in biofuel production?
I have blogged in the past about the relationship between water and biofuels. There can't be conventional grain-based biofuels without water. But there was an interesting post on EurActive a little earlier today in response to the annual Davos meeting....
World Bank blames biofuels for rising food prices
The World Bank's Development Prospects Group blames biofuels for rising food prices. For me the key passages in the 21page pdf are these.The United States is the largest producer of ethanol from maize and is expected to useabout 81 million...
Biofuels push 260m people in to hunger, ActionAid
The charity Action Aid estimates that 260m people have been driven into fuel poverty by biofuels in a story reported in today's Guardian Unlimited. Dr Claire Melamed, ActionAid's head of trade policy says. "The world needs to start again and...
1 bn acres of unused agricultural land world wide could produce biofuels
1 bn acres of unused agricultural land world wide could produce biofuels, according to the Stanford News Service in a piece called Feeding and fuelling the future: the bioenergy potential of reviving abandoned agricultural land.The authors estimate that this is...
Looks like the world food summit will put pressure on ethanol
Looks to me like the world food summit is going to put pressure on ethanol and biofuel more generally in this report from the Times Online. ...
farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs
US farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs, according to my pal Joe Kamalick on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Looks to me that...
Food prices and food aid
Food prices are rising and this is putting increasing pressure on food aid, according to the United Nations, and reported in yesterday's Guardian. That report, which has a list of food hotspots, says: "We will have a problem in coming...
A christmas thought
Let's reduce pressure on world food stuffs as soon as we can. According to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation in mid December... Currently 37 countries worldwide are facing food crises due to conflict and disasters. In addition, food...
I'm moderating the 2008 World Biofuels Markets Congress
I'm going to be moderating the plenary session of the 2008 World Biofuels Markets Congress, to be held 12th-14th March, 2008 at the Brussels Exhibition Centre, Belgium. The organisers, Greenpower conferences, are expecting around 1300 people to turn up...
Biofuels could be very good for third world: UN
Biofuels could be very good for the third world Gustavo Best head of energy policy at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, talking to Reuters. He draws an interesting parallel with the Green Revolution of the 1960s: "It's probably the...
World Bank's Wolfowitz wants US ethanol tariff to go
Joining those who call for a removal of the US ethanol tariff is, Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, according to Ethanol Brasil. Ethanol Brasil continues: Wolfowitz called for the US to remove the ethanol tariff in a...
Should biofuels production be confined to the tropics?
The Biopact blog has looked at the commercial viability of a number of potential biofuel crops. The blogger suggests that people in temperate latitudes will only find growing crops such as rape seed and wheat making sense commercially when the...
Biofuels for the developing world
According to biopact.com James Monroe is offering modular equipment to biofuel producers in the developing world to make a range of biofuels like, bioethanol from fruit other waste products that are can be converted into sugars. These plants are suitable...
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