Sugarcane ethanol: contributions to climate change mitigation and the environment
By E. Teixeira, H. Velthuizen, L. B. Antoniazzi, Daniel, A. Aguiar, Marcos Adami. 2008
143 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Climate change is a challenge facing human life. It will change mobility and asks for new energy solutions. Bioenergy has gained increased attention as an alternative to fossil fuels. Energy based on renewable sources may offer part of the solution. Bio ethanol based on sugar cane offers advantages to people, the environment and the economy. Not surprisingly, governments currently enact powerful incentives for the development and exploitation of bio ethanol. However, every inch we come closer to this achievement, evokes more skepticism. Many questions are raised relating to whether sugar cane is really a sustainable solution. Still much is unknown about the net release of carbon dioxide and what the impacts of sugar cane expansion are on green house gas emissions. This book looks at the scientific base of the debate on sugar cane bioethanol. Authors from Europe, Brazil and the USA capture many aspects of what is known and address assumptions while not denying that still much is unknown. It covers impacts on climate change, land use, sustainability and market demands. This publication discusses public policy impacts, technology developments, the fuel-food dilemma and the millennium development goals.
Subfields: Plant Science
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- Marcos Adami
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- R. Freitas
- D. A. Aguiar
- L. Sugawara
- D. Lapola
- M. P. Mello
- R. Schaldach
Citations in the corpus
- Remote Sensing Time Series to Evaluate Direct Land Use Change of Recent Expanded Sugarcane Crop in Brazil (2011, background): “The use of biofuels to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and consequently prevent the global warming potential has been widely discussed [1].”
- The impacts of biofuel targets on land-use change and food supply: a global CGE assessment (2010, unknown): “Second, some studies such as Hertel et al. 2010, Banse et al. 2008 measure the impacts in a given year as percentage change from a base year (e.g., 2001, 2006), i.e. they are comparative static exercises.”
- Indirect land-use changes can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil (2010, background): “Previous studies focused on the direct land-use changes (DLUC) and the “carbon debt” caused by the replacement of native habitats by biofuel crops in Brazil (7, 8, 10, 11).”