From: ClimateIntel.com
In this, our second post on the issues surrounding a biofuels
industry in Russia, we examine the attempts by the Russian
political class to overcome the various policy barriers we outlined
in our last installment. For several years, the Russian political
leadership has given rhetorical support to the idea of developing
the domestic biofuel sector, but ...
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