Brazil: growth, adaptive capacity & new green technologies
environmental opportunities and antagonisms for Brazil in the 21st CenturyArchive for biofuel
Environmental requirements for ethanol
Brazil and seven other emerging nations are set to lodge an official complaint against the European Union over their cultivation requirements for exported ethanol, threatening to present the case to a WTO tribunal, claiming that the requirements will freeze the expansion of the industry. The EU proposition will state that Brazilian ethanol cannnot be come from the cerrado, nor forested regions.
sulphur-free diesel
Brazlian company Votoratim has announced that from 2010 sulphur-free diesel, made from sugar cane, will be produced commercially in Sao Paulo state. The company’s investment arm had part funded the project headed by Californian biotech firm Amyris to produce the new fuel which is made with genetically modified yeast.
Soya, climate change, agribusiness
New research says Brazil will experience a 25% fall in soya exports over the next 12 years due to rising temperatures caused by the climate crisis, according to the FT. Sugar cane , which thrives in higher temps and high CO2 could could see a rise in production… Read the rest of this entry »
Ethanol, land use & cars
Production of ethanol from sugar cane overview in the guardian looking at land use pressures. Audio interview with Lula on Brazil’s position in the biofuel world market here.
