Brazil, US sign research, finance agreements on cellulosic biofuels, regional biofuels support

In Brazil, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Petrobras’ Center for Research and Development (CENPES) announced an agreement to collaborate on research for cellulosic biofuels. The US Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Shafer, and Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim, also announced an agreement to provide additional support to Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti and St. Kitts and Nevis for the development of national biofuels industries.

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