biofuel technology News
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IEA Report Confirms Biofuels Can Enhance Energy Security While Reducing GHG Emissions
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) this week confirmed that sustainable biofuels could displace over a quarter of the world's transportation fuels by 2050. Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) applauded some of the reports key findings. The IEA report stated that, "by 2050, biofuels could provide 27% of total transport fuel" and "the projected use of biofuels ...
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EU leaders agree to cut CO2 emissions 20% by 2020
EU governments have confirmed the commitment which established its position as a leading force in the fight against climate change. They confirmed an ambitious schedule for the adoption of the package and fundamental principles as a basis for agreement. 'The climate and energy package represents a major step forwards and an appropriate starting point for an agreement with which Europe can prove ...
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Eco Expo Asia opens next week with nearly 200 exhibitors from 19 countries and regions
The fourth edition of Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong’s only trade fair devoted to the Asian environmental protection industry, will open from 28 to 31 October at AsiaWorld-Expo. The four-day event scales new heights this year to feature nearly 200 exhibitors from 19 countries and regions and will run in conjunction with the HSBC Eco Asia Conference. The Honourable Edward Yau, JP, Secretary for the ...
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The Indirect Land Use Change Impact of Biofuels – IEEP Launches Analysis of EU Nations Projected Use of Biofuels and their Consequences
A new IEEP report analyses the indirect land use change (ILUC) impact of the substantial additional biofuel usage that will be generated up to 2020 by the targets under the EU renewable energy Directive. Plans from national governments setting out how they will reach these targets, which are only now becoming available, confirm that conventional biofuels will be the primary technology used in ...
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Canada`s Renewable Fuels Association Applauds Federal Government`s Waste Management Report
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) welcomed the release of the House of Commons' Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development report, The Management of Municipal Solid Waste and Industrial Materials. The report's recommendations recognize the importance of renewable fuels technology in solving environmental problems like waste management in Canada. "This report ...
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Climate week highlights need for accelerated innovation in clean technology
During Climate Week 2011, business, government, non-profit, and civil society leaders from around the world are convening in New York City to drive a ‘clean energy revolution’. Not surprisingly, innovation in clean technologies is a common theme among many of the events. In most models of a low-carbon future, innovation is assumed to occur and to reduce costs over time.1 There has ...
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The H2020 NextGenRoadFuels Project: Ready for the Next Generation of Sustainable Road Transport Fuels
NextGenRoadFuels is a new project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. It will develop a competitive European technology platform for sustainable liquid fuel production technologies, proving the Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) pathway as an efficient route to produce high-volume, cost-competitive drop-in synthetic gasoline and diesel fuels as well as ...
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When it comes to long-term transport decarbonisation, Commission has a short attention span
Proposed vision largely ignores sustainable crop-based biofuels’ contribution to reducing emissions – not long after European Parliament and EU governments confirmed their importance BRUSSELS, 28 November 2018 – The long-term decarbonisation strategy unveiled today by the European Commission offers an ambitious vision of a low-emission future for the EU and says almost all the ...
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Where does bioenergy fit into a low-carbon future?
Original story at MIT News Biofuels like ethanol and other forms of bioenergy are often seen as a key part of a low-carbon future. But large-scale production of these fuels, which are usually made from either food crops like corn and sugar cane, or from woody plants and grasses, would represent a major shift in how the world makes its energy and uses its land — with implications for global ...
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The case of the missing gas tax
MIT researchers find vehicle efficiency standards are at least six times more costly than a tax on fuel. Written by Vicki Ekstrom. You can read the original story in MIT News Vehicle efficiency standards have long been considered vital to cutting the United States’ oil imports. Strengthened last year with the added hope of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the standards have been ...
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MEPs give first reactions to climate change and energy package
MEPs broadly supported the wide-ranging and ambitious proposals launched by the Commission to tackle climate saying they represented an economic opportunity for the EU at a special EP plenary session in Brussels. However, some MEPs raised concerns on the initial Commission target for biofuels and expressed fears that jobs may be exported to parts of the world with no binding targets for carbon ...
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