This briefing paper reviews evidence of the impacts of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on food prices, with a focus on corn and soy, and presents new analysis on the impact of the RFS on U.S. livestock farmers. Studies examining the relationship between food prices and biofuel demand conclude …
Development of alternative energy should create more than 20 million jobs around the world in coming decades as governments adopt policies to address the depletion of resources, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. Some 2.3 million people around the world already work in alternative energy jobs with half …
Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai September 25, 2008, 0:37 IST Around 150 companies, led by state-owned oil marketing companies and Reliance Industries (RIL), the country's largest private company, have evinced interest in production of biodiesel. The move comes on the back of the government's plan to introduce a 20 per cent …
US agriculture faces the daunting task of growing enough crops to meet the demands of both a hungry world and the booming new biofuels industry while reducing its impact on climate change. That formidable challenge hung over discussions this week at a US soybean industry conference that chewed over topics …
Europe's heated debate over biofuels risks weakening one of the world's best tools to fight climate change and one of the developing world's best hopes for economic growth, Brazil's ambassador to the EU said on Friday. "What I fear is the debate over biofuels has taken on a very emotional …
Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman Emphasis on promotion of biofuels can be useful for solving rural energy problems. India is a country in transition with recent high rates of economic growth propelling it towards being a global economic power. The sustenance of this economic growth would depend on how the country is …
It did not take long for biofuels to turn from one of the darlings of the environmental movement to the bugbear. As recently as 2004, green groups such as Friends of the Earth were calling for an expansion of biofuels to make road transport greener. Biofuels, derived from plants, are …
Sushmi Dey & G Ganapathy Subramaniam NEW DELHI THE GOVERNMENT has decided not to encourage biofuels at the cost of foodgrain production. While a policy for biofuels has been cleared last week and targets have been set to step up diesel blending, senior government officials are of the view that …
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 11 Envisaging a target of 20 per cent blending of bio-diesel and bio-ethanol by year 2017, the Cabinet today approved the National Policy for Bio-fuels. The Cabinet also approved setting up of a National Bio-fuel Coordination Committee under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and a Bio-fuel Steering …
THE government is planning to make it mandatory for oil companies to sell a 20% ethanol-blended petrol across the country by 2017. The National Policy on Biofuels, which was cleared by the Cabinet on Thursday, has set a target to achieve higher blending of biofuel in both petrol and diesel. …
EUROPEAN Union lawmakers voted to cut in half, to 5%, an ambitious target for using crop-based biofuels for European road transport needs by 2020. The vote by the European Parliament's industry committee deals a blow to climate-change goals agreed on by EU leaders last year to try to cut carbon-dioxide …
At the current rate of use the crude oil reserves of the world are predicted to deplete in about 40 years. Therefore, it has become necessary to find and devise methods of processing a renewable raw material for conversion into transportation fuel. Some countries are manufacturing ethanol from sugarcane or …
Chief Minister Yeddyurappa has constituted a 14-member bio-fuel task force, headed by Y B Ramakrishna of Samagra Vikas Trust. Prof Balakrishnegowda and Athihalli Devaraj of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Udupi Srinivas of Indian Institute of Science, Prof S G Patil of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad are among …
DH News Service, Bangalore: Minister for Medical Education Ramachandre Gowda underlined the need to develop alternative sustainable forms of energy that would be able to fulfil the requirement of the large population. Addressing a seminar on bio-diesel and ethanol as sources of renewable energy in the City on Friday he …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 2, 2008, 3:57 IST Concerned with the abnormally high prices of molasses, sugar mills have asked oil companies to raise the ethanol procurement price by 40 per cent for the recently-floated tender. Two years ago, the government and sugar industry representatives had fixed the …
