{"id":14630,"date":"2008-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20080826-03n"},"modified":"2008-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T22:00:00","slug":"usa-and-china-sign-biofuels-research-agreement-for-bioethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/usa-and-china-sign-biofuels-research-agreement-for-bioethanol\/","title":{"rendered":"USA and China sign biofuels research agreement for bioethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A collaborative agreement for biofuels research was signed by the US Department of Agriculture and China&#8217;s Ministry of Science and Technology during the International Conference on Sorghum in Houston this week (19th August).<br \/>&#8220;We have an existing cooperation between the USDA and the Chinese Ministry for Science and Technology,&#8221; said Eileen Herrera, acting deputy director for the Office of International Research Programs at USDA&#8217;s Agriculture Research Service. &#8220;We cooperate on several initiatives. Signing this protocol represents formal cooperation in the area of biofuels research.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20080826-03\/sorghum.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"sorghum.jpg\"\/>The Agreement was signed by Dr. Gale Buchanan, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for research, education and economics and Dr. Liu Yanhua, vice minister, ministry of science and technology, Peoples&#8217; Republic of China. It establishes the intent to &#8220;cooperate in establishing processes and infrastructure for conversion of sweet sorghum and other feedstocks to ethanol.&#8221; It also encourages collaboration among scientists worldwide to contribute to alternative energy research through the development of alternative feedstocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s signing establishes a virtual joint center for a series of projects that are very specific to the two centers,&#8221; said Michael Abbey, international affairs specialist and Asia program coordinator for USDA-Agriculture Research Service. &#8220;We also intend to include universities and business in both China and the United States. We can now focus on specific areas of cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A collaborative agreement for biofuels research was signed by the US Department of Agriculture and China&#8217;s Ministry of Science and Technology during the International Conference<\/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":[488,8400],"class_list":["post-14630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ministry-of-science-and-technology-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630","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=14630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14630"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}