Kyung Wook Hur, Vice Minister, Ministry of Strategy and Finance of Korea; and Luis Alberto Moreno, President, IDB, signed a memorandum of understanding to promote programs and projects that foster cooperation between them and, in particular, activities related to green growth, sustainable energy and climate change.

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The Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will sign a an agreement to co-finance public and private sector projects worth as much as $2 billion in the next three years in Latin America and the Caribbean. Leer más »

They seek to end up processing 5,5 million tons by 2015. The drop of the petroleum and its relationship with the price of the raw materials. The long term project allows to overcome a crisis as the current one.Â

The biofuels production is in sustained growth. In reference with the biodiesel, during next months we will arrive to 1,9 million annual tons (Mt), with expectations of increasing that figure in next years. “I estimate that toward 2015 the 5,5 Mt will be exceeded”, Claudio Molina sketched , Executive Director of the Asociación Argentina de Biocombustibles. On the other hand, regarding the anhydrous bioethanol, it is expected that towards ends of 2010 the sector be under conditions of assisting the 300.000 annual m3 that, in a beginnig, will demand the oil companies. Leer más »

BIOFUELS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BUENOS AIRES.Â

Specialists of the renewable energy sector analyzed here the future of a business in expansion.  Â

During last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was carried out in Buenos Aires, for the second year in a row, an important conference, organized by the British firm Green Power Conferences, that had as strategic partners to the Argentine Chamber of Biofuels and to the Argentine Association of Biofuels and Hydrogen, and the support of the IICA, of the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, the INTA, the INTI, Chancellery, the Exportar Foundation, the Agency of Investment Promotion, AAPRESID and ACSOJA, among other entities. Leer más »