In Sweden, the newly elected conservative Reinfeldt government has pledged to spend nearly $100 million on the development of biofuels. The government has signed technology partnerships with the US and Brazil in recent months regarding biofuel development. Already in Sweden, there is a $1500 rebate on the purchase of a flex-fuel vehicle and 40,000 cars on the road (1% market share) are flex-fuel.
Recently in Sweden, ethanol taxes were abolished, and Scania has commenced increased exports of its biofuel-powered city buses. The head of Saab recently criticized the British government for dragging its feet on support of biofuels.
In Sweden, the 1,000th E85 station opened in October, and by December the country had registered more than 80,000 ethanol-powered vehicles. The Swedish Society of Green Motorists said that the country...
In Michigan, City of Flint, Kettering University and Swedish Biogas International have announced a partnership for a waste-to-energy system at the Flint Township wastewater treatment plant. The $8-$10...
In Sweden, pulp producer Sodra Cell Varo announced an $83 million project to generate all its energy needs from timber biomass and biofuels. The project, which will be operational by 2010, reduces the...
The German national government announced that it had increase its commitment to funding FAO by $11 million for a variety of food security programs, including an FAO project supporting interregional bi...
Panel Intelligence released the first of a quarterly series of Corporate Sustainability Surveys, and found that corporate sustainability spending, as a percentage of revenue, is expected to grow from ...
In the Philippines, the central government signed a $30-million agreement to expand capacity at the FE Clean Energy/Bronzeoak Clean Energy sugarcane ethanol plant in San Carlos, Negros Occidental to 1...
