Posted in Energy Efficiency, Singapore on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 31, 2007 (ChannelNewsAsia) – A new funding scheme, managed by a new taskforce called the Energy Efficiency Programme Office, may be set up to promote projects that are energy efficient.
Singapore has become more energy efficient over the years, but the National Environment Agency (NEA) said it is time to take a more integrated approach.
It [...]
Posted in Clean Energy, Singapore on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 31, 2007 (AFP) – The government said Tuesday it has earmarked 50 million Singapore dollars (34.5 million US) to fund research on clean energy, such as solar power, over the next five years. Under the programme, Singapore-based local and foreign research and development organisations, public sector agencies, private firms and non-profit research laboratories are [...]
Posted in Crude Palm Oil, Malaysia on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 16, 2007 (AFP) – The value of Malaysia’s palm oil exports is expected to reach a record of 40 billion ringgit (11.84 billion dollars) this year as prices soar, a report said Wednesday.Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin said the forecast had been lifted from an earlier figure of 35 billion ringgit, and [...]
Posted in Biodiesel, Crude Palm Oil, Malaysia on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
October 31, 2007 (Forbes) – The mass production of palm oil-based biodiesel in Malaysia has been slow in taking off as the current high price of crude palm oil has made the use of the alternative energy source uncompetitive, a local daily reported Wednesday. Malaysia has approved 91 projects to build biodiesel plants at end-September [...]
Posted in China, Ethanol, Philippines on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 29, 2007 (BioPact) – US$ 30 million ethanol plant will be put up next year by independent oil player Eastern Petroleum and a Chinese partner in Sarangani province (→Flash Earth) in south-central Mindanao. Fernando Martinez, president of Eastern Petroleum, said the multi-million dollar ethanol plant would be a joint venture between his company and [...]
Posted in Australia, Emissions Reduction on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 31, 2007 (News.com.au) – AUSTRALIA needs to adopt a strong negotiating position for fresh Kyoto talks which balance carbon emission reductions while protecting jobs and economic growth, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
Mr Downer said the Government signed the Kyoto Protocol but refused to ratify it because the obligations imposed on developed countries to stabilise [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Germany, India on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 30, 2007 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world’s biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was willing to help New Delhi make progress.
Merkel, a former environment minister who has pushed global warming to the top of her international agenda, said rich [...]
Posted in Biodiesel, Malaysia on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 30, 2007 (Bernama.com) – A total of 91 biodiesel projects with production capacity of 10.193 million tonnes per year were approved by end-September this year, Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry’s Parliamentary Secretary Senator Datuk Dr S. Vijayaratnam said Tuesday.
From the number, four biodiesel plants with production capacity of 300,000 tonnes [...]
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Singapore on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
October 29, 2007 (IHT) Second-generation biofuels, made from products like waste from agriculture and forestry, may not yet be a commercial reality, but that is not preventing Singapore from trying to position itself to become a major processing and trading hub in Asia for new clean energies. “We feel that if we’re going to focus [...]
Posted in Biofuels, India, Jatropha, Myanmar, Philippines on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
October 29, 2007 (IHT) – Until recently, Jatropha Curcas, a tall bush with highly toxic fruit and bark, was mainly used as a hedge plant to keep livestock away from crops. But amid soaring prices for traditional biofuel feedstock, including palm oil, the nuts from the perennial bush are now being eyed as a possible [...]
