In India, the price of biodiesel made from jatropha needs to increase if the nation is to create a financially viable and sustainable biodiesel market.

This was the message communicated by The Confederation of Indian Industry and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Together the two organisations conducted a study titled Realistic Cost of Biodiesel in India, which found that biodiesel derived from jatropha should be priced at Rs. 36 per litre (€0.6), up from Rs. 26.5. Leer más »

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 »

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 »