(TORONTO) Today, Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), responded to the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) by highlighting the clear need for the increased blending of biofuels in global transport fuels illustrated by the WEO’s projections. The WEO’s projections are based on models using existing and officially announced national energy policies around the world, and reaffirms…

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(TORONTO) With the 23rd annual UN climate conference (COP23) underway in Bonn, Germany Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), urged negotiators to recognize the still-untapped potential of ethanol to support national goals for reducing GHG emissions. The negotiations underway at the conference are seeking to establish terms for moving forward on the Paris Agreement, reached two year…

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(TORONTO) Today, Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), reacted to the latest IEA’s medium-term outlook on renewable energy by noting that once again projections are anticipating continued increased growth in demand for conventional biofuels.

“The IEA’s latest outlook clearly shows the key role that biofuels are playing in efforts to decarbonize the global transport sector” Baker sa…

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(TORONTO) Today, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) recommended that international carbon mitigation strategies, particularly in the global transport sector, be significantly accelerated based on an analysis of recent climate study findings of rapidly rising average global temperatures.

In making the recommendation, GRFA president Bliss Baker noted the enormous potential for the increased use of biofuels in t…

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(TORONTO) Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) released a new chart showing opposite trends in the UN FAO’s Food Price Index (FPI) and world fuel ethanol production since 2008, demonstrating clearly that ethanol production is not a main driver of global food prices. The chart uses the latest world fuel ethanol production data from F.O. Licht’s 2017 forecasts.

The FPI’s steady and significant drop to 161.…

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(TORONTO) Today, Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), paid tribute to the 57th annual Earth Day and called for a renewed global commitment to action on CO2 emissions in the year ahead. More than a billion people around the world are expected to mark the occasion by showing their support for environmental protection. Each year festivals, parades and rallies are held in 192 countrie…

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(TORONTO) Today, Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), called on G20 leaders to build on the historic international cooperation achieved in 2016 with the ratification of the first binding climate agreement, the Paris Accord reached at COP21.

“The global community must scale up the ambitiousness of policies to reduce emissions in the transport sector if they hope to achieve the targ…

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(TORONTO) Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), in cooperation with F.O. Licht, released its Annual Global Ethanol Production Forecast showing continued resilience in the sector. The GRFA forecasts the global ethanol sector will remain strong in 2017, with total production peaking at 97.80 billion litres this year. This latest global forecast continues the trend of incremental annual ethanol production gr…

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(TORONTO) Today, Bliss Baker, the President of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), called on negotiators participating in high-level events now underway at COP22 to seize the opportunities presented by biofuels to support the global transition to a low-carbon transport sector. Baker noted that biofuels like ethanol have been proven to reduce GHG emissions from 40 percent to 90 percent in comparison to fossil…

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WHAT: “Bioethanol: A renewable, low carbon energy source ready to use!”

WHO: Hosted by UNICA – the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

WHEN: Monday, November 14th at 13H40 (WET)

WHERE: Brazilian Pavilion in COP 22 – Marrakech, Morocco

The event will help to inform negotiations at the conference by providing policymakers with background on the potential of bioethanol to support the transition to a low-carbon glob…

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