ENVIRONMENT: COLDIRETTI, BIODIESEL BEFORE AN EMERGENCY HAPPENS
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Nov. 28 - With biodiesel emissions are halved and we save the planet. Coldiretti is gathering signatures in support of an initiative to produce one million tons of biofuels from crop production, which will reduce emissions of hydrocarbons by 80 pct and of subtle particles by 50 pct. Thus announced chairman of Coldiretti Paolo Bedoni at the opening of the UN Conference on climate change in Montreal. Recent Coldiretti studies have showed how an acre of cultivated land can capture between 0.75 and 1.85 tons of carbon dioxide, or 300-700 litres of diesel.
The initiative to produce a million tons of biodiesel, integrated in petrol stations at 5 pct can assure 10 million cars 20,000 km per year. The initiative is part of a project to reduce costs for business and make more resources available for Italian made goods. Coldiretti states that to fight pollution and expensive oil it is necessary to invest in alternative energies such as biofuels obtained from crops like sunflower and that the increase in oil prices makes these fuels more competitive, and therefore making it easier to reach the aims of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. (AGI) .
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