The Petra group announced plans at the Clinton Global Initiative meetings for a $136 million jatropha plantation and biodiesel refinery in the West Indies.
Also at the Clinton meeting, primate scientist Jane Goodall said that crops growing for biofuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming. “We’re cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more important to save now,” Goodall said.
New York Senator and US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced a 10-year, $150 billion energy and climate change plan.
The plan calls for increased CAFE standards for fuel efficiency to 5...
At the Greenhouse 2007 conference, a report was released citing that among plants under investigation as biofuel sources, two -- jatropha and spartina -- were banned in Australia and featured on a glo...
Scania, the Swedish maker of biodiesel and ethanol-powered buses, agreed with the Clinton Global Initiative to make ethanol-powered buses available to the same price as biodiesel buses for 409 world c...
The 4th annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting opened in New York today with a call to action by former President Clinton, former Vice-President Al Gore, President Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Queen ...
Three meetings in the US this week will help shape the near-term debate on climate change and biofuels. In New York, the UN hosts a summit meeting today to discuss approaches to a new global climate ...
A meeting has been called by the Indian agriculture minister to coordinate efforts of ten sugar-producing Indian states regarding ethanol blending targets.
India recently announced an E10 ethanol m...
