In India, NDTV reported that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA) during the recent G20 summit held in Delhi.
A total of 19 countries, including India, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy, South Africa and the US as well as 12 international organizations have already agreed to join the GBA.
GBA will support global development and deployment of sustainable biofuels by offering capacity-building exercises across the value chain, technical support for national programs and promoting policy lessons-sharing.
It will also facilitate development, adoption and implementation of internationally recognized standards, codes, sustainability principles and regulations to incentivize biofuels adoption and trade, according to the report.
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