Science looks at how to replicate Brazil’s biofuels example in dev countries

Jose Goldemberg, Secretary for the Environment of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and professor at the University of Sao Paulo, wrote an intersting article in the authoritative journal Science, which has a special issue on ‘energy for the long haul’. In it, Goldemberg explains how developing nations can replicate Brazil’s biofuels policies and leapfrog towards a genuine model of sustainable development that takes them beyond ‘peak oil’.
…Goldemberg’s article comes very close to some of the arguments we have set out in the ‘Biofuels Manifesto’. He also indicates how efficient tropical biofuels are (they have a very positive energy balance, better even than cellulosic ethanol), how fast Brazilian producers have learned to lower costs, and why producing biofuels in temperate climates is problematic both from an economic as well as from an environmental point of view.

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