A new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts finds that investments in clean energy increased 230% among the G-20 in the last 5 years. According with the research, Brazil ranked sixth, after China, United States, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. “The clean energy economy represents one of the greatest economic opportunities of the 21st [...]
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Another big ethanol deal is under way in Brazil
Major fuel companies are continuing to work on partnerships in Brazil to produce ethanol. Following the recent announcement that Shell and Cosan are in negociations to form a joint venture, ETH Bioenergy, a large Brazilian producer in the country, has just announced it was acquiring its rival Brenco. The merger of the two companies operations is [...]
Brazil continues to invest in green energy
Brazilian President Lula da Silva in the inauguration of the green power plant Brazil has just inaugurated world’s first ethanol-fuelled power plant. The ethanol used in the plant comes from sugarcane, but other biofuels being researched for ecologically friendly attributes or all-weather use are using huge quantities of soy, sunflower and other oil seeds. The [...]
Brazil’s Sugar Rush
Photo: Reuters By Peter Day – BBC World Service Many people have been puzzled by “B” in BRICs; they have wondered why Brazil was included with Russia, India and China in the BRICs club of nations which the investment bank Goldman Sachs thinks will thrust their way to the global economic top table over the [...]
Jatropha Takes Root in Brazil
A worker in Mozambique holding jatropha seeds. Efforts to make jatropha-based biofuel have met with mixed success. A Brazilian start-up is testing the possibility of implementing a large-scale biofuels project using jatropha, a family of hardy, succulent plants. The company, BioVentures Brasil, is getting $1 million from the InterAmerican Development Bank for a pilot project [...]
Flex-fuel time in Brazil
For the second time this year, light vehicles equipped with flex-fuel technology accounted for 94% of all light vehicle sales in Brazil in August, the highest share recorded since the introduction of flex cars in 2003. The same share was reached for the first time in June of this year. Numbers released by Brazil’s National [...]
Look to Brasilia, not Beijing
The rising challenge to China’s great power aspirations.
Curitiba, Brazil…Where the LA Orange Line Was Born
Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, with a metro area of 3.5 million is the fourth largest economic region in Brazil. It draws its name from the Tupi indian word meaning “big pines.” It’s also a city of big urban visions, produced by a culture and form of social organization different from [...]
United States and Brazil sign agreement on biofuels
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) announced today that they have signed an agreement that could accelerate the development and international commercialization of biofuels. The announcement was made at the International Biofuels Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The NREL/Petrobras agreement will help achieve the goals of [...]
Biofuel in Brazil is not a dream, it is a reality
The Washington Post today compares the biofuel industry in the US and in Brazil. If on one side the American public opinion is in doubt about ethanol’s green credentials, the tecnology in Brazil has overcome all the obstacle and today produces a greener, cheap alternative to gasoline. The production of ethanol in the South American [...]