19 November, 2008

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During the days 17 to 21 of November 2008, is being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the “International Conference on Biofuels: the biofuels as vector of the sustainable development.”Â

The Conference will contribute for the international discussion on the challenges and opportunities presented by the biofuels and it will represent an important occasion for the boarding of the topics related with the biofuels, as energy security, production and sustainable use, agriculture and industrial processing, besides the matters bounded to the international trade, specifications and technical registers, climate change and the future of the biofuels. Â

Representatives of governments, international organisms, parliamentarian, the scientific and academic community, the private initiative, the civil society and NGOs among others are invited to participate in the Conference . All the countries members of the UN have been invited.Â

The event will be organized in two big segments. Segment “Plenary Sessions”, open to the public, during the days 17, 18 and 19 of November 2008 and Segment “Intergovernmental of High Level” during the days 20 and 21 (Dynamic and operating).Â

The conference is being organized by the Grupo Interministerial de Trabalho, integrated by the Ministério das Relações Exteriores; Casa Civil da Presidência da República; Ministério de Minas e Energia (coordenadores); Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento; Ministério do Meio Ambiente; Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior; Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia; e Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário. The work documents were elaborated by the Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE) do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES).Â
Five big topics related with the biofuels will be discussed:Â

a)Biofuels and Energy Security, transition of the energy matrix; diversification of the sources, universalization of the access;Â

b)Biofuels and the Moving of the Climate: Decrease of the emissions of hothouse effect, moving of the use of the land, comparative analysis of the life cycle;Â

c)Biofuels and Sustainability: alimentary security, rent generation, challenges for the echo-systems;Â

d)Biofuels and Innovation: investigation and development: biofuels of first and second generation, opportunities for Science and Technology, andÂ

e)Biofuels and International Market: trading rules; technical matters; social-environmental registers.Â

During the last two days, 20 and 21, the debates will be taken in the sphere of the High Level Intergovernmental Segment, in round tables format, of which the government’s representatives, at ministerial level, and international organisms will participate.

This article is dated Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 6:05 pm under , Asociación Argentina de Biocombustibles e Hidrogeno, Fiem, Paul Anderson, Plantas de biodiesel automatizadas.
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