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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025
PM Hasina joins G20 leaders in launching Global Biofuels Alliance

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TBS Report
09 September, 2023, 10:05 pm
Last modified: 09 September, 2023, 10:30 pm

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PM Hasina joins G20 leaders in launching Global Biofuels Alliance

TBS Report
09 September, 2023, 10:05 pm
Last modified: 09 September, 2023, 10:30 pm
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday joined the leaders of seven other countries, including US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in Delhi, India.

The alliance aims to accelerate global efforts to meet net zero emissions targets by facilitating trade in biofuels derived from sources including plant and animal waste, reports Reuters.

PM seeks world leaders' sincere work for prosperous future

Apart from Bangladesh, other countries of the alliance are US, Brazil, the UAE, Singapore, Italy, Argentina, and Mauritius.

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"We are launching the Global Biofuel Alliance. India invites all of you to join this initiative," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his remarks to leaders from the Group of 20 major economies at the summit.

The push for a biofuels alliance mirrors the International Solar Alliance launched by New Delhi and Paris in 2015 to bring clean and affordable solar energy within the reach of all.

The International Energy Agency estimates in a July report that global sustainable biofuels production would need to triple by 2030 to put the world's energy system on track towards net zero emissions by 2050.

India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, imports about 85% of its crude needs and is gradually building capacity to increase its output of biofuels.

India is targeting to become carbon neutral by 2070 and is expanding use of biofuel in its transport sector. It has advanced the deadline by 5 years to 2025 for doubling nationwide ethanol blending in gasoline to 20%.

The alliance will help by encouraging global biofuels trade, developing concrete policies on lesson-sharing and promoting provision of technical support for national biofuels programmes worldwide, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in July.

The South Asian nation plans to build 12 bio-refineries to produce fuel from items including crop stubble, plant waste and municipal solid waste.

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