Environment minister defends 'globalization' of ethanol
In an event promoted Wednesday by Valor, Environment minister Joaquim Leite said he will propose at COP26, which will start on the 31st in Glasgow, Scotland, "more financial ambition to encourage programs such as the Brazilian ethanol". He defended the use of biofuel on a large scale as a way to reduce carbon emissions and the ethanol combustion car as an alternative to the electric car.According to Mr. Leite, it is necessary to look at the electric car in a broad way, with a global perception, in order to realize that the infrastructure needed to make it viable is still very fragile. "We don't have cities with a power plug every block in the world, or in Brazil", he said. For him, ethanol is a "green job" solution for Brazil and for countries with less qualified labor, such as the Africans.Also at the event, Agriculture minister Tereza Cristina stressed that Brazil would have the opportunity to position ethanol as an alternative for sustainable mobility during COP26. She said that it is not possible to ignore the advent of electric cars, but that the country cannot miss the opportunity to expand and export the use of biofuel — "a cleaner, cheaper and more convenient technology" — to the world.According to her, Brazil needs more partners in the segment. Like India, which has been implementing an ethanol production program. Ms. Cristina said that the Colombian president Ivan Duque Márquez, visiting Brazil this week, showed enthusiasm in increasing the planting of sugarcane in his country to produce biofuel.According to Volkswagen’s CEO for Latin America Pablo Di Si, ethanol is a "Brazilian thing that we need to export to the world". He highlighted the company's plans in Europe to eliminate combustion engines and migrate to the electrical system by 2030, but added that the reality is different in other parts of the world, which opens up an opportunity to explore biofuels.Volkswagen wants to turn Brazil into a research and development center for biofuels. "Brazil is at a key moment of creating a public policy looking to the next 20 years and transforming ethanol into a fuel cell," he pointed out."Ethanol has a lot to offer the world as a society, and we need to increasingly communicate the understanding of ethanol in the chain as a whole. Looking from the gas station to the wheel, the total consumption of CO2, regardless of how it comes out of the exhaust", added Mr. Di Si."Ethanol could revolutionize a number of African and Asian countries...
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