European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in his keynote speech to the International Biofuels Conference in Brussels in July 2007. noted that The European Union is committed to developing and producing biofuels “in ways that protect our planet – not in ways that create new risks”.
Barroso highlighted the challenges that Europe must overcome to meet [...]
Chinese scientists have developed a new method that dramatically increases the yield of a clean biogas fuel from rice straw.
China is the world’s largest rice producer and the industry results in 230 million tonnes a year of surplus rice ’straw’ — the stem and leaves left behind after harvesting. Farmers often burn the straw, increasing [...]
INDONESIA and Malaysia have long denied that their tropical forests are being burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations. It seems they’ve been lying through their teeth.
Between 1990 and 2005 palm plantations rocketed by 1.87 million hectares in Malaysia and by more than 3 million hectares in Indonesia. With the help of data [...]
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