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International organizations/Initiatives
- Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
- Global Village Energy Partnership - supports and helps set up energy action plans and assists energy SMEs in developing countries.
- Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP)
- Interamerican Ethanol Commission - Co-chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Roberto Rodrigues, president of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of Brazil and Luis Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank.[1]
- IBEP: International Bioenergy Platform (interim website)
- International Biofuels Forum (IBF)
- International Energy Agency Bioenergy (IEA Bioenergy)
- REEEP: Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership
- REN21: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
- RSPO: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
- RTRS: Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association
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United Nations organizations
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization: Bioenergy (FAO: Bioenergy)
- UNECE/FAO Timber Section: Wood Energy
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) UNCTAD has a Biofuels initiative.
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Development banks
- African Development Bank (AfDB)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- World Bank
- International Finance Corporation
- News:
- Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis, 4 July 2008 in The Guardian: "Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report".
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International cooperation
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Multilateral agreements
- International Biofuels Forum
- Core Agriculture Support Program - Is a part of the Strategic Framework for Subregional Cooperation in Agriculture for the Greater Mekong Subregion Program, which includes Cambodia, China, Lao, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The program works to increase cross-border trade and investment in agriculture. A major part will focus on ensuring "that the benefits from new opportunities opening up in agriculture through biofuel crops and the attendant new technologies, and the opening of borders among GMS nations will be spread out equitably."[1]
- Kyoto Protocol
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Bilateral agreements
- US-Brazil ethanol partnership
- Brazil-Indonesia Consultative Committee on Biofuels
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