Biotech Updates

Carbonpositive Implements Major forestry and biofuel project in China

November 24, 2006
http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=469

Carbonpositive, an organization involved in sustainable bioenergy projects in developing countries has secured about 266,000 hectares of land in Yunnan province, China, for reforestation and biofuels crops. About 2,000 hectares will have already been planted with Jatropha by February 2007. Biodiesel production from Jatropha plantations is said to contribute to China’s current five-year plan to have biodiesel as a substitute for coal..