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5 billion bucks on forests; yet will it be spent wisely?

Plantations International News Image: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR This post was composed by a social press reporter. It has actually not been modified by the Discussion forum organisers or partners, and stands for the viewpoint of the individual writer only. In Paris I got an apple for 50 cents.I paid both for the apple as well as the chain of actions that brought it to me; the growing of the apple, the transport of the apple, and also the sale of the apple.By completionof the chain raisers of some products could obtain only 1-2 % of the cost I paid. That's 1 cent [...]

UK consumed more ethanol than biodiesel during second quarter

Plantations International News The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change has released renewable energy statistics for the second quarter of 2015, reporting liquid biofuels consumption fell by 24 percent, from 464 million liters (122.58 million gallons) during the second quarter of 2014 to 355 million liters during the second quarter of this year. The drop was mostly due to reduced biodiesel consumption. During the quarter, the DECC indicated liquid biofuels represented 3 percent of gas and diesel consumed in the transportation fuel market, down from 4 percent the same quarter of the prior year. According to the DECC, ethanol contributed [...]

Spacing out: Information for notified deforestation techniques and also plans

Plantations International News Image: Kate Evans/CIFOR This post was composed by a social press reporter. It has actually not been edited by the Online forum organisers or partners, and also stands for the opinion of the specific author only. "It takes simply one roadway to ruin a woodland." David Cooper, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)A number of multi-lateral arrangements on climate change consist of the issue of deforestation as an important element of techniques targeted at reducing Green House Gas (GHG) exhausts. The Strategic Plan for Aichi Biodiversity Targets Conventionrequire halving the rate of deforestation by 2020. Target 15 of the [...]

First community-owned biodiesel plant in Massachusetts to open up in very early 2016

Plantations International News Co-op Power, a consumer-owned sustainable energy cooperative, anticipates its brand-new biodiesel plant in Greenfield, Massachusetts, to come online in early 2016. The plant will consume used cooking oil (UCO) from local dining establishments, colleges, as well as establishments and also transform it into millions of gallons of biodiesel. Baseding on Co-op Power CEO Lynn Benander, the Northeast Biodiesel Plant is not the initial biodiesel refinery in the region, but it will be the first that is locally possessed. Benander additionally keeps in mind that of the greatest factors why Co-op Power obtained associated with the task was the [...]

A real-life crystal-ball: Exploring the plans needed for 2050

Plantations International Information Photo: Icaro Cooke Vieira/CIFOR This write-up was written by a social reporter. It has actually not been modified by the Online forum organisers or partners, as well as stands for the viewpoint of the specific author only. Predicting the future isn't really simple, merely ask the makers of Back to the Future II. Their leftfield vision of 2015 from the '80s amused the net for days previously this year.However, our generation's forecast of the next 30 years has much higher risks attached.In 2050 we'll have over 9 billion individuals to feed and alsothe results of climate adjustment to [...]

New Paradise Chemicals biofuel stimulant plant to open up in Iowa

Plantations International Information New Heaven Chemicals, a US-based subsidiary of the TSS Firm, is preparing to open its chemical manufacturing center in Manly, Iowa. After 17 months of design, New Paradise Chemicals (NHC) prepares to start manufacturing of sodium methylate, a biofuel driver, by February 2016. The Manly plant is NHC's initial plant in the United States, and it will supplement the firm's existing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. TSS Firm has been supplying salt methylate to biofuel producers worldwide, now it looks for to bring manufacturing closer to its clients. Baseding on Prasad Devineni, director of NHC, the company had [...]

Port of Seattle, Alaska Air, Boeing type Sea-Tac biojet partnership

Plantations International News The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering to approach a considerable ecological goal: powering all air travels by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with sustainable aviation biofuel. Sea-Tac is the first UNITED STATE airport to set out a long-lasting roadmap to include aviation biofuel into its infrastructure in a cost-effective, reliable fashion. At the Sea-Tac gas ranch Dec. 16, executives for the port, Alaska Airlines, and Boeing signed a Memorandum of Comprehending to introduce a $ 250,000 Biofuel Facilities Usefulness Research study that will evaluate costs as well as infrastructure needed to supply a [...]

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