Following the publication of the EPA’s draft Regulatory Impact Analysis this week which includes proposed changes to the Renewable Fuels Standards Program, the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber expressed both concerns and optimism regarding the possible effects this will have on the export-driven Argentine biodiesel industry. Leer más »

The brazilian state company Petrobras considers the possibility to install biodiesel factories in European territory, said the day 23rd the manager of biofuels of the company, Fernando Cunha.Â

Speaking in the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-France, Cunha declared that they already have contacts with French and Spanish companies keeping in view the installation of biodiesel factories that will use brazilian raw material. Leer más »

JATROPHA CURCAS, ENERGY AND SOCIAL CULTIVATION

The Second Monographic International Conference on Jatropha Curcas, held during the past 14th and 15th of May in Madrid, fulfilled its objective of showing the current state of this important energy cultivation. Of the hand of Global Energy, the appointment gathered ten important experts at world level with more than 150 conference members interested in the production and commercialization possibilities of the Jatropha Curcas. The reports also highlighted the important social side of this cultivation. Leer más »

The fight to stop the climatic change. The measurement will cost three Euros per week to each citizen; it forsees to reduce the discharges of greenhouse effect gasses in a 20% towards 2020.

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BRUSSELS (AFP). – The European Commission today revealed an ambitious plan of fight against the climatic change to reduce in a 20% its discharges of greenhouse effect gasses in 2020. The curiosity is that it will cost three Euros per week to each European and the industry will have to pay to have the right to contaminate. Leer más »