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Marcos Jank* and Ismael Perina**
The ‘More Ethanol’ Movement
On December 6th, we launched in Brasilia the ‘More Ethanol’ Movement. The event brought together 200 executives, labor leaders representing sugar-energy industry workers, 35 members of the Senate and Lower House of Congress, representatives from several ministries and government agencies and the media.
Exports are good business
Courage to forge ahead with ethanol
Sustainable and accelerated growth: The only option for Brazil’s sugar-energy industry
Ethanol: The Bottleneck
Ethanol – a new growth cycle
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What’s possible when people have choice?
Géraldine Kutas
 
Hafez Ghanem
How to feed the world in 2050
As the world population grows, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is calling for more investment to increase agricultural production to meet demand. Hafez Ghanem,their Assistant Director General for Economic and social Development spoke to New Europe.
Looking back: parting thoughts from Joel Velasco
Joel Velasco
“Biofuels are not to blame for world hunger”
Philip New
“Flex” turbines manufactured by GE in Brazil open promising market for ethanol
John Ingham
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Quotes
12/23/2011
“The domestic ethanol industry has evolved, policy has progressed, and the market has changed making now the right time for the incentive to expire”
U.S. Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
10/29/2010
“There have to be cuts, the president could say, in unaffordable pension commitments, in biofuel subsidies and useless tax breaks”
David Brooks's Op-Ed column in The New York Times started in September 2003.
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John Mathews
The End of the U.S. Ethanol Tariff
Against all expectations, the U.S. Congress refused to extend the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff levied against imported ethanol, opening up the American market to imports as of January 1, 2012.
Anemic Economic Recovery in U.S. Leads Investors Elsewhere
Bob Kabel
The role of biofuels in the energy future: Lessons from Brazil
David Zilberman
The New Brazilian Forest Code and the Deforestation NAMAs
Rodrigo Lima, Andre Nassar, Laura Antoniazzi and Simone Gonçalves
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