Learn more about Climate-Smart Agriculture and the Country Alliance – including the United States, Brazil, India

Right now is Friday, July 12, 2024.

Do you keep in mind that in September 2023 a gaggle of G20 international locations assembly in India launched the decision Global Biofuels Alliance?

The founding members have been Argentina, Brazil, India, Italy, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates and america, with Bangladesh and Singapore taking part as observers.

Based on reported by the Government of Indiawithin the meantime extra international locations have joined the initiative, which signifies that a big a part of the world’s inhabitants is represented. As of July 2024, from the angle of the ten largest international locations on the planet by way of arable land, solely Russia, China, Ukraine and Pakistan haven’t but joined.

In Brazil, automobiles with ethanol or ethanol-gasoline hybrid (flex) engines and continental infrastructure have been a typical – and inexpensive – actuality because the oil disaster of the Nineteen Seventies. As well as, 30% ethanol is blended with gasoline, offering cleaner air, particularly in dense city areas. Extra just lately, the auto business has begun investigating ethanol as a supply of hydrogen for its automobiles.

The US (US), in flip, took a latest and fascinating step: on June twenty sixth, they launched a public session (RFI) requesting feedback on the usage of a climate-smart agriculture within the biofuel manufacturing chain. This data will likely be used to ascertain – and encourage – voluntary requirements for biofuel feedstocks which might be grown utilizing practices that mitigate greenhouse fuel emissions and/or sequester carbon within the soil.

Extra particularly, the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) is in search of suggestions on subjects akin to:

1. Biofuel feedstock crops and practices to be thought-about in USDA evaluation.

2. Scientific knowledge, data and evaluation to be thought-about in quantifying the outcomes of greenhouse fuel emissions ensuing from agricultural practices climate-smart and traditional agricultural practices.

3. Information, documentation and knowledge mandatory to offer adequate proof to confirm the adoption and upkeep of the observe.

4. Methods used to trace uncooked supplies all through the biofuel manufacturing chain.

5. Third-party verification of the adoption and upkeep of practices.

In different phrases, a really fascinating RFI. Click on on the picture beneath to learn extra.