Members of the San Jose City Rice Millers Association in the Philippines along with private investors have broken ground on a new 9.9-MW rice husk biomass power plant
India’s Mysore City Corporation (MCC) is planning to set up a biogas plant to convert waste into a fuel that can be used in vehicles after completing a fact-finding mission to Sweden recently, according to the Times of India.
New Zealand bio-fuel pioneer, LanzaTech, has landed a multi-million dollar project with airline Virgin Atlantic and plane manufacturer Boeing. While the first ethanol plants are to be built in New Zealand, contracts have also been signed for factories in China and India.
International charity and pressure group Oxfam has released a report highlighting the problems that a modern “land rush” is bringing to poor communities. Fingers have been pointed at palm oil corporations and agribusinesses as being primarily responsible for many of the land deals that have left local communities without homes or livelihoods.The report, Land and Power, says that as many as 227 million hectares have been sold, leased or licensed in large-scale land deals since 2001, mostly by international investors.
Agreements between PetroVietnam and the People’s Committee of Quang Ngai, a central Vietnam province look set to boost the country's output of biofuel.
Perennial grasses that thrive in saline areas can not only help reclaim vast stretches of unproductive land but can also produce biofuels without compromising food production, according to a study in Pakistan.
The annual general meeting of Neste Oil in Helsinki has been picketed by Greenpeace activists protesting in Helsinki against deforestation and social problems caused by the growing demand for palm oil in biofuel production.
The World Bank has called for the relaxation of laws requiring crops to be blended into petrol, saying that they are contributing to the global food price crisis.
The US Air Force has successfully used a biofuel blend to help power a Boeing F-22 Raptor, its most advanced combat aircraft to Mach 1.5, paving the way for the military to fully embrace alternative fuels over the next few years.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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