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    Spanish company Ferry Group is to invest €42/US$55.2 million in a project for the production of biomass fuel pellets in Bulgaria. The 3-year project consists of establishing plantations of paulownia trees near the city of Tran. Paulownia is a fast-growing tree used for the commercial production of fuel pellets. Dnevnik - Feb. 20, 2007.

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    Finnish engineering firm Pöyry Oyj has been awarded contracts by San Carlos Bioenergy Inc. to provide services for the first bioethanol plant in the Philippines. The aggregate contract value is EUR 10 million. The plant is to be build in the Province of San Carlos on the north-eastern tip of Negros Island. The plant is expected to deliver 120,000 liters/day of bioethanol and 4 MW of excess power to the grid. Kauppalehti Online - Feb. 15, 2007.

    In order to reduce fuel costs, a Mukono-based flower farm which exports to Europe, is building its own biodiesel plant, based on using Jatropha curcas seeds. It estimates the fuel will cut production costs by up to 20%. New Vision (Kampala, Uganda) - Feb. 12, 2007.

    The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to use 10% biodiesel in its fleet of public buses. The world's largest city is served by the Toei Bus System, which is used by some 570,000 people daily. Digital World Tokyo - Feb. 12, 2007.

    Fearing lack of electricity supply in South Africa and a price tag on CO2, WSP Group SA is investing in a biomass power plant that will replace coal in the Letaba Citrus juicing plant which is located in Tzaneen. Mining Weekly - Feb. 8, 2007.

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    EthaBlog's Henrique Oliveira interviews leading Brazilian biofuels consultant Marcelo Coelho who offers insights into the (foreign) investment dynamics in the sector, the history of Brazilian ethanol and the relationship between oil price trends and biofuels. EthaBlog - Feb. 2, 2007.

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    Dubai-based and AIM listed Teejori Ltd. has entered into an agreement to invest €6 million to acquire a 16.7% interest in Bekon, which developed two proprietary technologies enabling dry-fermentation of biomass. Both technologies allow it to design, establish and operate biogas plants in a highly efficient way. Dry-Fermentation offers significant advantages to the existing widely used wet fermentation process of converting biomass to biogas. Ame Info - Jan. 22, 2007.

    Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is to build a biofuel production plant in the tribal belt of Banswara, Rajasthan, India. The petroleum company has acquired 20,000 hectares of low value land in the district, which it plans to commit to growing jatropha and other biofuel crops. The company's chairman said HPCL was also looking for similar wasteland in the state of Chhattisgarh. Zee News - Jan. 15, 2007.

    The Zimbabwean national police begins planting jatropha for a pilot project that must result in a daily production of 1000 liters of biodiesel. The Herald (Harare), Via AllAfrica - Jan. 12, 2007.

    In order to meet its Kyoto obligations and to cut dependence on oil, Japan has started importing biofuels from Brazil and elsewhere. And even though the country has limited local bioenergy potential, its Agriculture Ministry will begin a search for natural resources, including farm products and their residues, that can be used to make biofuels in Japan. To this end, studies will be conducted at 900 locations nationwide over a three-year period. The Japan Times - Jan. 12, 2007.

    Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched an arrogant attack on "quasi-hysterical Europeans" and their attitudes to global warming, calling the Stern Review 'dubious'. The remarks illustrate the yawning gap between opinions on climate change among Europeans and Americans, but they also strengthen the view that announcements by US car makers and legislators about the development of green vehicles are nothing more than window dressing. Today, the EU announced its comprehensive energy policy for the 21st century, with climate change at the center of it. BBC News - Jan. 10, 2007.

    The new Canadian government is investing $840,000 into BioMatera Inc. a biotech company that develops industrial biopolymers (such as PHA) that have wide-scale applications in the plastics, farmaceutical and cosmetics industries. Plant-based biopolymers such as PHA are biodegradable and renewable. Government of Canada - Jan. 9, 2007.


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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit and the India-Brazil-South Africa Summit

The day after 9/11 remembrance ceremonies were held across the world, the global South will be holding two historic meetings over the coming days, that are a sign of changing geopolitics and power relations in the world.

The 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit (official website) is being held in Havana, Cuba, with a highpoint over the weekend when 50 heads of states meet. The historic NAM - which was formed at the Bandung Conference of 1955 as a neutral block of nations that took no side during the Cold War - has been an important engine for deepening south-south cooperation and multilateral alliances on the political front. The organisation died after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after the end of the Cold War, but has since been revived. Since 9/11, more and more non-Western countries see South South relations gaining in importance and the divide between the North and the South is getting bigger. The NAM counts 116 countries from the (rapidly developing) global south and will be addressing the world's most pressing problems, amongst which the fight against terrorism, nuclear proliferation and energy security.

Tomorrow (Wednesday September 13) Brasilia is host to the first "India-Brazil-South Africa Summit" (IBSA), which unites three of the most rapidly growing economies, that have been creating ever narrower ties on the front of economic and scientific cooperation, trade and cultural exchanges. The Summit is expected to yield concrete trilateral agreements on transport, agriculture, energy, trade facilitation and information and communication technology.

At both Summits, energy security, biofuels development and energy cooperation are high on the agenda. India for example already announced that it will sign a formal agreement with Brazil on acquiring vast tracts of sugar cane land to enhance energy security. South Africa and Brazil are expected to sign a deal on technical biofuel cooperation. That is why we will obviously follow the debates at these Summits and report about them here.

For now let us present some resources:

India-Brazil-South Africa Summit

14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit
Check back often for updates about news on biofuels, energy cooperation and energy security as it comes from these two historic Summits.
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THIRD WORLD WAR said...

Non Aligned Movement (NAM) More Important than United Nations (UNO) in 2006- Kalki Gaur

Sept 12, 2006, Tuesday, 6:30 pm Washington DC:
Post-cold War United Nations is corrupt dysfunctional and irrelevant in 21st Century just as League of Nations had become dysfunctional at the eve of Second World War. Diplomats should dissolve the United Nations and dismiss its entrenched bureaucracy and form a New United World Organization (UWO) but must not hire any person associated with erstwhile UNO. Non-Aligned Movement with 116 members has bright future. India should lead NAM to form NAM head quarters, NAM Treaty Organization (NAMTO), NAM Common Market (NAMCOM). Let us bury United Nations alive in 2007 and sell its assets to pay for its debt.
The United Nations should be dissolved and all its assets auctioned to pay for its debt. The UNO should be replaced by UWO (New United World Organization), but UWO should not hire any person from the UNO as most if not all officials of the UNO are incompetent and have caused to make UNO dysfunctional. The Second World War made League of Nations irrelevant and it was wisely put to deathbed and peace of the coffin. The 2003 Iraq War made United Nations irrelevant and it is wise to put United Nations to deathbed and we should give UNO the peace of a coffin. The old building of the UNO is falling apart and it is high time that we should dissolve the United Nations and save the money we waste on UNO. The UNO has become the home of the parasite diplomatic class that is concerned only about its own self-interest than for anything else. It is high time to dismiss all employees and officers of the United Nations and its subsidiaries. There is no way United Nations can be reformed to meet the need of the modern times. India, Japan, Germany, Brazil and USA should work towards the dissolution of the United Nations in 2007, as it has become dysfunctional just as League of Nations was. Let diplomats of the world join hands to give death burial to the United Nations in 2007.

First. The problems of United Nations are the product of the plethora of new states in Africa that emerged out of the decolonization of the European colonial powers. The very concept of nation-states is facing demise and thereby it is only logical that incompetent United Nations led by incompetent officials is given a swift death-burial and all assets of the United Nations are transferred to the New United World Organization (UWO) that should replace it. However, the New United World Organization (UWO) should not hire even a single person that has worked for the dysfunctional United Nations.

Second. The black leadership of Kofi Annan and preponderance of African officials in the United Nations caused the demise of United Nations. United Nations became a tool of the De Beers and improperly promoted the concept of Conflict Diamond to the detriment of the Black African diamond producers. Just as during slave trading age, the black slave gatherers worked with Arab Muslim slave traders and Christian slave traders to harvest black slaves, similarly United Nations worked diligently to support the genocide of Pagan Blacks at hands of Arab Muslims and Catholics throughout sub-Sahara Africa.

Third. Kofi Annan appointed Saudi woman to lead the women committee of the United Nations. Kofi Annan implanted his henchmen as profiteers of the business of United Nations. United Nations had a chance to reform itself by making India, Brazil, Japan, Germany the Permanent Members of the Security Council. United Nations is beyond repair and it should be dissolved and all its assets sold to pay for its debt. The world would be better off without United Nations ass it is a disgrace to the world and a disgrace to the diplomacy.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went to Cuba to attend the Non Aligned Nations (NAM) and it shows that NAM has more vitality than UNO. India, Brazil should lead the NAM movement and transform it into a permanent organization with permanent structure and promote it as an alternative to UNO. The Black leadership of the United States sabotaged the UNO to the detriment of the Third World to favor white nations, just as black slave gatherers in the past worked for Arab Muslim slave traders and white Christian slave traders. Similarly, the Muslim leaders that infiltrated in to Non-Aligned Movement as Trojan Horse of the White nations weakened the Non-Aligned Movement from within. The Christian Third world nations and Buddhist nations that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement should play a greater role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

Non-Aligned Movement should develop permanent NAM Secretariat in Andaman Islands of India, which should rival New York UNO headquarters. Non-Aligned Movement should organize NAM University (NAMU), NAM Treaty Organization (NAMTO), NAM Common Market (NAMCOM), NAM Peacekeeping Force (NAMPF) and NAM Administrative Services (NAMAS). The Non-Aligned Movement has 116 members and it is high time that we promote NAM as a permanent world organization, permanent common market, with permanent organizational, bureaucratic infrastructure. NAM Organization (NAMO) shall have better credentials than UNO. It is high time that world leaders agree to bury the incompetent and dysfunctional United Nations with incompetent officials so that out of the ashes of the dead United Nations Organization a new good organization NEW WORLD ORGANIZATION (NWO) could emerge. Let us all celebrate that Havana Cuba Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement has signaled the predestined demise of the United Nations. Let us all work towards the dissolution of the ugly organism of United Nations. Let us all work to develop Non-Aligned Movement into a permanent world organization.

KALKI GAUR
Director: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOPOLITICS. USA Blog URLs:
http://indiatalking.com/blog/kalkigaur/ ; http://360.yahoo.com/diplomacyofcivilizations/ ; http://clearblogs.com/kalkigaur/ ; http://kalkigaur.blogstream.com/ ; http://www.bloglines.com/blog/kalkigaur/ ; http://my.opera.com/kalkigaur/blog/ ; http://kalkigaur.blog.com/ Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]

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