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 »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The bioenergy and the renewable fuels open the door to a new time for the humanity, augured this Tuesday diverse participants in the International Conference on Biofuels that is carried out in Sao Paulo.Â

With the development and the expansion of the ethanol and the biodiesel “I believe that we are in a paradigm change, in a time change for the humanity”, expressed this Tuesday the mexican Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nation’s Cepal (Comisión Económica para América Latina ). After the era of the fossil fuels, now “it is the era of the biomass, with the humanity developing the triptych of biodiversity, biotechnology and biofuels”, Bárcena affirmed. Leer más »

During the days 17 to 21 of November 2008, is being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the “International Conference on Biofuels: the biofuels as vector of the sustainable development.”Â

The Conference will contribute for the international discussion on the challenges and opportunities presented by the biofuels and it will represent an important occasion for the boarding of the topics related with the biofuels, as energy security, production and sustainable use, agriculture and industrial processing, besides the matters bounded to the international trade, specifications and technical registers, climate change and the future of the biofuels. 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 »

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 »

Experts assure that the impact in the country will be minimum, but they advise to be alert. Â

When the 40 entities that conform the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain decided the agenda of their fifth annual forum-under the title “agriculture and atmosphere, a shared agenda for the sustainable development”-, the scenario on which the complex moved was far from being the desired one, but it was much better than the current one. Leer más »