| International Bioenergy Summit - 2012: Algal Biofuel & Synthetic Biology |
The National Policy on Biofuel, approved by the Union Cabinet, Government of India, on 11 September 2008, proposed the blending of 20% biofuels - bioethanol and biodiesel by the year 2017. Major thrust is to be given to research, development and demonstration with focus on plantations, processing and production technologies including second-generation cellulosic bio-fuels.
In furtherance to the government's policy, the International Bioenergy Summit-2012, sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India is being organized in collaboration with TERI.
About TER - The Energy and Resources Institute
TERI was formally established in 1974 with the purpose of tackling and dealing with the immense and acute problems that mankind is likely to face within in the years ahead
on account of the gradual depletion of the earth's finite energy resources which are largely non-renewable andon account of the existing methods of their use which are polluting
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