Brazil pledge to share sugarcane biofuel technology
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has spoken in favour of further use of sugarcane-based ethanol to replace fossil-based fuels to combat the threat of global warming.
Speaking at the fifth Summit of the Americas, President Lula declared that Brazil is ‘ready to share the technologies it developed for more than 30 years and to expand and strengthen initiatives of cooperation’.
Lula announced that the region ‘demands renewable, clean, inexpensive fuels,’ and that the region possesses ‘the weather and soil conditions to export energy without relegating [its] domestic demand, much less [its] food security’.
Despite critics claiming that the practice of turning sugarcane into ethanol could occupy agricultural land destined to food production, and areas currently covered by forests, Lula stated that Brazil would be the first one to condemn biofuels if they represented a threat to food production or to the preservation of our forests.
The Brazilian government, along side the US represent the world's main producers and consumers of ethanol, and has also demanded that the Obama administration suspend taxes on Brazilian ethanol exports to the US.
Speaking at the fifth Summit of the Americas, President Lula declared that Brazil is ‘ready to share the technologies it developed for more than 30 years and to expand and strengthen initiatives of cooperation’.
Lula announced that the region ‘demands renewable, clean, inexpensive fuels,’ and that the region possesses ‘the weather and soil conditions to export energy without relegating [its] domestic demand, much less [its] food security’.
Despite critics claiming that the practice of turning sugarcane into ethanol could occupy agricultural land destined to food production, and areas currently covered by forests, Lula stated that Brazil would be the first one to condemn biofuels if they represented a threat to food production or to the preservation of our forests.
The Brazilian government, along side the US represent the world's main producers and consumers of ethanol, and has also demanded that the Obama administration suspend taxes on Brazilian ethanol exports to the US.
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