Danisco, Inbicon, Novozymes and Statoil to supply biofuels to Copenhagen climate change treaty conference

In Denmark, the national government indicated that the Partnership for Biofuels, a consortium including Danisco, Inbicon, Novozymes and Statoil, will supply straw-based ethanol at the Climate Change Conference, where the successor to the Kyoto Treaty will be finalized. Volvo is supplying the cars. The national government also added that they have reserved some of the production to Denmark as host country. Inbicon will produce the ethanol.

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