» Clean Energy
Euro-Latin Capital is committed to carbon-abatement and renewable energy, and especially active in the biofuels industry, both as investor, investment manager, advisor and contributor to non-profit organizations, education and policy-making.
Euro-Latin Capital has developed globally recognized expertise, especially in the biodiesel space in Argentina, Brazil and the US. Via Sustainable Bio-Brazil, Euro Latin Capital advocates an integrated strategy for open trade and production of sustainable food and biofuels and a plan for preservation of the Amazon using carbon trading. Euro Latin Capital promotes sustainable biofuels and policy-making on conferences and roundtables around the world to pursue and promote the lowest carbon alternatives to fossil fuels that complement rather than compete with the food chain.
Euro Latin Capital via Mr. Langaard was Keynote Speaker at United Nations’ 2007 Forum on Sustainable Development with the highest-ranking US and Brazilian officials to procure cooperation between both countries in the interest of reducing global carbon emissions and energy dependence.
Euro-Latin’s dedicated Clean Energy advisory team includes senior bankers and specialist advisors in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, London and Houston, and offers corporate and strategic advice to investors, corporations and governments in the clean energy space. Our services include:
- Private equity and project management
- Strategic, corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions advice
- Capital raising
- Consulting and representation
» Clean energy commitments
We are acting as investment manager for Patagonia Bioenergia, a large Argentine project at port site for exports, which currently has 250’000 tons of capacity and will reach 500’000 tons in 2010.
We funded and are acting as investment manager of Alterra Bioenergy in Georgia, USA, a biodiesel and bio-additives producer and distributor.
We are involved in other biofuels and feedstock procurement projects in Latin America and the United States, including study of jatropha curcas, castor oils, palm and other native and tropical oil plants, as well as algae projects in various parts of the world.
We have a US port site biodiesel project and a US distribution network under development and has completed advisory work for European energy companies in Brazil for both ethanol and biodiesel projects.
We are represented via Mr.Langaard on The Blue Ribbon Panel which presented a Fast Action Plan for abatement of short-lived climate pollutants at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December, 2009. The Blue Ribbon Panel have founded The Global Methane Fund (http://globalmethanefund.org/), to catalyze methane abatement projects around the world.