August 31, 2007 (BusinessStandard.com) – Asia Pacific Carbon Fund, managed by Asian Development Bank, is scouting for renewable energy and energy efficient projects in India to provide co-financing and technical support.
The fund which recently (in early August) raised $151.8 million from investors, including those from Europe, has a mandate to finance Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [...]
Archive for August, 2007
ADB`s Carbon Fund Eyes Projects in India
Posted in ADB, Carbon Credits, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, India, Renewable Energy on August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
India Pins Biofuel Hope on Jatropha
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, India, Jatropha, Renewable Energy on August 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
August 30, 2007 – KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – India is forecast to produce 2 million tonnes of biodiesel by 2012 as it aggressively plants wild jatropha oilseed to meet growing hunger for energy, a senior industry official said on Thursday.
The nation has identified 64 million hectares of wasteland that can be planted with jatropha, [...]
Jatropha Spreading Regionally
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Clean Energy, Myanmar, Renewable Energy on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
August 29, 2007 (EnergyCurrent.com) – MYANMAR: Myanmar plans to cultivate jatropha on 7 million acres of land as feedstock for biodiesel plants around the country as part of a move to diversify into alternative energy sources, Director General of the Energy Department U Soe Myint said at a forum held in Singapore.Each of the seven [...]
Malaysian Land Agency Acquires US Biodiesel Firm
Posted in Biodiesel, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Crude Palm Oil, Malaysia, Renewable Energy on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
August 27, 2007 (ChannelNewsAsia.com) – KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s land development agency has acquired the entire equity interest in US-based Twin Rivers Technologies, one of North America’s largest bio-diesel manufacturers, local media said Monday. The Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) made the 241.4 million ringgit (70 million dollar) deal to try and penetrate the lucrative North [...]
JBIC & ICICI Bank Sign Loan Agreement for CDM Projects in India
Posted in Carbon Credits, Cleantech venture capital, India, Japan, Renewable Energy on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
August 24, 2007 (Moneycontrol.com) – Japan Bank for International Cooperation and ICICI Bank, Ltd. signed today an untied loan agreement totalling the yen equivalent of US$200 million.The loan is co-financed by private financial institutions (viz. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (agent bank), The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., The Hongkong and Shanghai [...]
Doha Bank to Start Gulf’s First Carbon-credits Exchange
Posted in Carbon Credits, Climate Change, Gulf, Renewable Energy on August 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
August 27, 2007 (Bloomberg) – DOHA BANK plans to start the Arabian Gulf’s first carbon-credits exchange in 2009 to tap an emerging market for emissions trading.
“The Gulf is the primary source of the oil and gas the world’s using,” Doha Bank deputy CEO R Seetharaman said in an interview in Dubai. “Emissions trading is [...]
Trading Emissions takes 81% Stake in Thai Biogas Plant
Posted in Biogas, Carbon Credits, Cleantech venture capital, Renewable Energy, Thailand on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
August 21, 2007 (Point Carbon) – Trading Emissions plc, a London-listed carbon aggregator, has taken a substantial controlling stake in one of the world’s biggest biogas plants and one of the first projects to be eligible for carbon credits in Thailand, the company said today.
Through its subsidiary Trading Emissions Asia, the company now owns 81 [...]
New Zealand Biofuel Trial to Start in October
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, New Zealand, Renewable Energy, U.S. on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Solid Energy’s biodiesel arm is “quietly confident” it will get enough cropping farmers to plant oilseed rape for a 1500ha biofuel trial in the South Island.
August 24, 2007 (The Press) – Its operating division, Biodiesel New Zealand, plans to have the first crop sown in mid-October. Contract rates will vary depending on where [...]
Largest Thai Biodiesel Producer Builds Fourth Plant
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Renewable Energy, Thailand on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
August 23, 2007 (Emerging Current) Thailand: Thai oil refining company Bangchak Petroleum Plc. will invest about US$28 million to US$31 million to build a biodiesel plant by the end of this year, Patiparn Sukorndhaman, Bangchak’s senior executive vice-president said in a statement. The new plant, which will be capable of producing up to 300,000 [...]
Philippines (Bicol) Embarks on Jatropha Production
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Jatropha, Philippines, Renewable Energy on August 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
August 22, 2007 – (PIA.gov.ph) LEGAZPI CITY — With the increasing demand for cheaper and environment-friendly sources of fuel in today’s market the government is stepping up its efforts to answer the need by advocating the use of local alternative fuel sources such as those from plants called biofuel.
