The president from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, participated in the closing of the “International Conference on biofuels”, in Sao Paulo (Brasil) Photo: EFE.Â

The alimentary crisis is due to the speculation in financial markets, in raw materials, and of the oil industry; the ethanol and the biodiesel, combine growth with environmental development, but also with social responsibility.Â

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, exempted the biofuels today of any responsibility in the world alimentary crisis, that attributed to the speculation in the financial markets and the raw materials. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The world production of the ethanol biofuel will grow A 191% , going from 55.700 million liters manufactured in 2007 to 162.000 millions in 2015, according to a study presented during an International Conference on Biofuels in Sao Paulo.Â

The demand of ethanol in 2010, according to the study, will be of 101.000 million liters, infront of an offer of 88.000 million liters. Leer más »

The Brazilian state oil company Petrobras will invest 1.500 millions of dollars from 2008 to 2012 in projects of biodiesel and ethanol production, as announced this Tuesday the own company during the International Conference of Biofuels that is carried out in Sao Paulo.Â

The investments will be made through Petrobras Biocombustible, integral subsidiary of the brazilian state company, created on past July 29th.Â

“With the creation of that enterprise, the company gets ready to assist part of the growing world demand of biofuels, besides reinforcing its commitment with the environment and with the social development in a sustainable way”, Petrobras assured. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The Brazilian ethanol, derived from the sugarcane, will be the official fuel from 2009 of the Indy Formula, one of the most important motor racing of the world, according to an agreement signed on Monday in the framework of the International Conference on Biofuels.Â

The Understanding Memorandum was signed when being inaugurated the “Primera International Exhibition of the Biocombustibel”, parallel to the conference, between Alessandro Texeira, of the Brazilian Agency of Exports Promotion (Apex) and the president of the Indy Racing League, Terry Angstadt. Leer más »

As they informed from the brazilian government the reedbeds sowed to obtain ethanol, would not be dangerous. Agency APÂ

The expansion of the reedbeds in Brazil to satisfy the growing demand of ethanol in the world won’t damage the Amazonas rainforest, said on Monday a high employee of the government. Â

In declarations at the beginning of a five days international conference on biofuels, the government’s general secretary, Dilma Rousseff, said that the country will announce a plan of agricultural areas very soon to specify where the cane can be cultivated, both for sugar or energy generating. Leer más »

New landing in the Great Rosario.Â

They already registered the land. Where is it? The works begin in 30 days and they will be finished by ends of 2009. Â

The Brazilian group Integrated Biodiesel Industries (IBI) summed up the purchase of a land in Alvear to lift a biofuel plant of 150 thousand tons a day. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-Brazil will be headquarters of an International Conference on biofuels next week, in which it will promote its sugarcane bioethanol, its main contribution in the segment of the renewable fuels.Â

Representatives of up to 40 countries will attend the encounter, that will last a week in Sao Paulo, and is foreseen to have ministerial level. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will inaugurate it on Monday.Â

Brazil is the biggest world exporter of ethanol and the second producer, behind United States. Leer más »

Barra Bonita, Brazil (Reuters) – The ethanol biofuel industry of Brazil would invest near 33.000 million dollars up to 2015, said on Tuesday the Association of the Cane Industry (Unica) of that country, while the fuel demand grows as an alternative to the gasoline.Â

The production of ethanol derived from the sugarcane has grown in constant way in the last years and it is forseen that it will increase almost a 20 percent only in the lapse 2008/09, because the flexible fuel cars that work only with ethanol, now dominate the sales of new cars in this quick growing nation. Leer más »

The Brazilian ethanol contaminates less. Picture: AFPÂ

The OECD says that it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%

PARIS (AFP). – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)Â highlighted, last Wednesday, the positive impact of the Brazilian ethanol, based on sugar cane, on the environment, since it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%. Leer más »

One of the last speeches of Lula was centered in presenting his policies for the productive development of his country. What and how it will be promoted, for when and what resources it will have. Brazil is obsessed with the goals, but mainly, with the getting businessmen and investors to know them. Leer más »