Important announcements for the promotion of the biofuels will be made this Wednesday January 14th by the minister of Energy, Marcelo Tokman, during a visit to the facilities of the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology of the Faculty of Sea Resources of this Institute of Superior Studies.   Â

The academic unit welcomes an interesting initiative of this area, developed by the Technological Scientific Center of Investigation for the Mining, CICITEM and the University of Antofagasta. Leer más »

The bond issue responds to growing interest from investors, who wish to support climate change-related projects in developing countries.

The green bonds will support the Bank’s climate action projects (both mitigation and adaptation).

The bond is an example of innovation the Bank is trying to encourage to stimulate public and private-sector financing for climate action

The World Bank recently launched its first “green bonds” designed to raise additional funding for projects or programs that support low-carbon activities in client countries. Leer más »

Exemplary enterprise of the small State. RECEPTORS. 2.400 solar panels cover the roof of the audience room. REUTER Â

The installation will help so that 20% of the energy that the Vatican consumes comes from renewable sources by 2020.Â

VATICAN. – A photovoltaic system for the solar energy use was inaugurated officially in the Vatican. The Pope Benedict XVI offered his first general “ecological” audience in the room that leads to the St. Peters Square, on whose roof around 2.400 solar modules were installed during the last two and a half months. Leer más »

Silvio Crestana, president of Embrapa and moderator of the debate.

The biokerosene, whose base technology was developed in the eighties (with the unpublished flight of a Bandeirante model, of Embraer), “has reappeared” during the debates of the IV Plenary Session of the a1st International Conference on Biofuels, that is held in San Pablo, whose topic was Biofuels and Innovation. Leer más »

If prospering the agreement / contract impelled between the Municipality, the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), RBA Ambiental company and the Gastronomic Hotel Association, the used vegetable oils would be gathered and used to generate biodiesel.Â

It is a pilot project on territorial scale, with implications in the provinces of Rio Negro and Neuquén that would consist on the training in good frying practices, the orderly gathering of the oils in drums of 100 to 200 liters, and the transfer to an biofuel elaborating plant installed in the county of Buenos Aires. Leer más »