PUBLIC RAndamp;D POLICIES FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL

Furtado, André Tosi ; (Coord.), Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez ; Felipe, Maria das Graças de Almeida ; Rossetto, Raffaella ; Magalhães, Paulo Sérgio Graziano ; Leal, Manoel Regis Lima Verde

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The Brazilian Ethanol Program began in 1975 and one of its main aims was to alleviate dependence on foreign oil importation. At the time Brazil was importing about 80% of its domestic needs causing a heavy burden on the economy. The country focused on producing ethanol using sugarcane as feedstock and the Brazilian Government helped to finance new cane fields/ plantations and new distilleries. In less than ten years ethanol production jumped from 0.5 to about 10 billion liters/year. During the last 30 years the country has learned how to produce sugar and ethanol in a very cost-effective way and nowadays bioethanol is responsible for 60% of liquid fuels utilized in the Brazilian light vehicles fleet. The amount of ethanol now produced in Brazil is significant in terms of the size of the domestic market (20 million vehicles) and it benefits the country in several other ways besides energy, such as: • making Brazilian sugar more competitive; • creating almost 1 million jobs; • generating wealth in the rural sector; • improving air quality in the large cities. Nevertheless the Brazilian ethanol sector faces a new challenge in the form of the unprecedented opportunity represented by global warming resulting from GHG emissions.

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DOI: 10.5151/9788521208228-SUGARCANEBIOETHANOL_78

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FURTADO, André Tosi; (COORD.), Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez; FELIPE, Maria das Graças de Almeida; ROSSETTO, Raffaella; MAGALHÃES, Paulo Sérgio Graziano; LEAL, Manoel Regis Lima Verde; "PUBLIC RAndamp;D POLICIES FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL", p. 937-948. Sugarcane bioethanol — R&D for Productivity and Sustainability. São Paulo: Blucher, None.
ISBN: 9788521208228, DOI 10.5151/9788521208228-SUGARCANEBIOETHANOL_78