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2010 Sustainability Report

2010 Sustainability Report

This is the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association’s (UNICA) second sustainability report, prepared in accordance with the G3 Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). As such it constitutes a landmark in the development of the Brazilian sugar-energy sector.

Ethanol Summit 2011 – Day 1

Welcome to our first blogpost directly from the 2011 edition of the Ethanol Summit, one of the world’s top events focused on renewable energies, which takes place in São Paulo, Brazil today and tomorrow.
Today was an exciting and enriching debate surrounding solutions for a low-carbon economy.

Ethanol Summit 2011 – Day 1

Welcome to our first blogpost directly from the 2011 edition of the Ethanol Summit, one of the world’s top events focused on renewable energies, which takes place in São Paulo, Brazil today and tomorrow.
Today was an exciting and enriching debate surrounding solutions for a low-carbon economy.

Welcome

By 2050, the world’s population will add another 2.5 billion people who will need to eat and power their lives. Global energy needs will likely double, and carbon dioxide emissions could increase by 80 percent. These alarming figures help explain why global leaders are searching for clean, renewable options to provide energy and reduce petroleum use. Sugarcane can help.

Welcome

By 2050, the world’s population will add another 2.5 billion people who will need to eat and power their lives. Global energy needs will likely double, and carbon dioxide emissions could increase by 80 percent. These alarming figures help explain why global leaders are searching for clean, renewable options to provide energy and reduce petroleum use. Sugarcane can help.

An Encouraging Sign: Sens. Coburn and Feinstein Join Forces

An Encouraging Sign: Sens. Coburn and Feinstein Join Forces

In yet another sign of mounting support for ethanol reform, news broke last night of a fresh bipartisan effort to end the tariff on imported ethanol and the ethanol subsidy that costs taxpayers $6 billion per year. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced an amendment to the small business bill that would sunset both policies less than two months from today.

Ethanol: The Bottleneck

Ethanol: The Bottleneck

Rising ethanol prices at the pump in Brazil have caused consumption of the renewable fuel to plunge in recent weeks, as drivers replace it with gasoline in their flex-fuel vehicles throughout the country. With simultaneously rising food prices come several accusations, some true, others false. The facts must be carefully analyzed.

Should we punish or promote ethanol?

Should we punish or promote ethanol?

The global financial crisis of 2008 barely grazed the Brazilian economy and may have been little more than a slight jolt for certain industries and areas of activity. But those that had been expanding with sizeable investments, like the sugarcane industry, were affected much more drastically by the dramatic loss of liquidity that year.

Calls for Ethanol Reform Mount in the House and Senate

Calls for Ethanol Reform Mount in the House and Senate

Yesterday marked one hundred days since the start of the 112th Congress and during that time, calls for ethanol policy reform gained considerable momentum. Deep bipartisan skepticism about continued subsidies and trade protection was on full display in the Senate on Wednesday, as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack faced the Environment and Public Works Committee.