At the 2023 G20 India launches the GBA: Global Biofuel Alliance

The GBA aims to act as a catalytic platform, fostering global collaboration for the advancement and widespread adoption of biofuels

G.T.M. 13 September 2023 3 minute read

G20 2023: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, together with the leaders of Singapore, Bangladesh, Italy, the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates, launches the Global Biofuel Alliance, which intends to accelerate the global adoption of biofuels by facilitating technological progress, intensifying the use of sustainable biofuels, and establishing robust standards and certifications through the participation of a broad range of stakeholders. The alliance will also act as a central repository of knowledge and an expert hub. The GBA aims to act as a catalytic platform, fostering global collaboration for the advancement and widespread adoption of biofuels. (Translated from https://www.g20.org/en/media-resources/press-releases/september-2023/gba/).

Biofuels are by definition fuels derived from renewable and agricultural sources, such as biomass. These forms of energy production aim to be ecological alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.

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India is the third-largest consumer and importer of fossil fuels and the largest consumer of oil. Fossil fuels have always been cheaper than fuels from renewable sources, and this has always been a major deterrent to the ecological transition. The GBA, on the other hand, aims to lower the production costs of renewable energy,

by implementing technologies, expertise and so on, it may even become possible to produce energy at home, as already happens, for example, with solar panels. It will also be very important to bring biofuel production to an industrial scale, so as to make this sector economically profitable and thus encourage the transition. The alliance aims to promote international collaboration with the goal of reducing emissions.

This ecological transition will lead to the development of new sectors and the creation of new jobs. India, for example, will be able to involve farmers more through the production of biomass from sugar cane, and could even export biomass to make the transition economically sustainable. This would also mean greater energy independence, since, as we have already noted, India is a huge importer of fossil fuels.

This will be a very important contribution to India’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2070. The country even aims to build 12 biorefineries to produce green energy from agriculture, livestock and waste.

This prospect of making emerging countries greener as well fits well with the goals the EU is already pursuing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and with all the ecological transition policies currently being implemented.

All in all, this seems to be a glimmer of hope, especially for future generations, who are rightly worried about climate change.

Source: https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/oil-and-gas/g20-summit-pm-modi-announces-adoption-of-g20-new-delhi-leaders-declaration-other-key-developments/103539547

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