{"id":14007,"date":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060308-13n"},"modified":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:00:00","slug":"brazils-president-to-seek-agreement-to-promote-biofuels-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/brazils-president-to-seek-agreement-to-promote-biofuels-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s President to Seek Agreement to Promote Biofuels in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brazil&#8217;s President Luiz In\u00b7cio Lula da Silva and Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Tony Blair are expected to sign an agreement to promote the use of biofuels in Europe, Lula announced during his weekly radio program.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lula, as the Brazilian president is known, is visiting Britain this week (March 6-10) and will seek support from Blair for a program to implement 5.75% mixture of ethanol to gasoline and diesel by 2010, local daily Valor Econ\u00d9mico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil argues this will help Europe reduce pollutant emissions and meet its Kyoto Protocol targets.<\/p>\n<p>Lula will also discuss with Blair a proposal to give incentives to biofuel production in Africa, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lula wants to increase exports of ethanol and is ready to supply technology to Europe for the use of ethanol in vehicles, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Brazil&#8217;s gasoline includes a 20% mixture of ethanol and some 16% of Brazil vehicle fleet of 23 million runs on ethanol fuel alone. The government is also starting a program to introduce a 5% biofuel mixture from other sources into diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brazil&#8217;s President Luiz In&middot;cio Lula da Silva and Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Tony Blair are expected to sign an agreement to promote the use of biofuels<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14007"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}