Berlin, Jan 26(EFE). – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) held today it’s Founding Conference in Bonn, in an act in which Spain was represented by the minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastian, and the secretary of State for the Climatic Change, María Teresa Ribera Rodríguez.    Â

IRENA is fruit of a German initiative, to which Spain and Denmark were added, and it has as objective the renewable energy promotion in the entire world and to overcome the obstacles that these find in its development. 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 »

ROME (AFP)-The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)Â questioned the benefits of the biofuels and requested a revision of the policies and subsidies to those products, in a report published on Tuesday in Rome.Â

The document that circulates annually under the title ‘The State of Food and Agriculture´ (SOFA), analyzes the advantages and risks of the biofuels. Leer más »