Green Technology

Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, shares his thoughts on the bioenergy partnership to create biomass and biofuels markets.  The G8 sponsored the Global BioEnergy Partnership to enable deployment of cost-effective biomass and biofuels.  ... 

...   "Biomass has the potential to supply a very large share of the world's energy needs – by one analysis, as much as 60 percent of total worldwide energy use. Renewable agricultural resources are readily available to meet this level of energy production. Biotech breakthroughs mean that agricultural fields could become the energy fields of the future. With the help of agricultural and industrial biotechnology, farmers can harvest two crops from every field—a food crop and a biomass crop for fuel production. The United Nations can do a great deal to promote biofuels development worldwide. "   ...

Via Biotechnology Industry Organization: BIO Statement on the Launch of the Global Bioenergy Partnership ...

BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and 31 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products.