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From the President’s desk
Marcos Sawaya Jank
Globalization and the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry
The rising flow of foreign capital to the Brazilian sugar and ethanol industry observed in recent years has clearly picked up speed in early 2010, with the confirmation of four major transactions in the first few weeks of the year. This has ignited the perception that Brazil’s traditional sugarcane industry, the country’s first documented economic activity, is moving rapidly towards a new reality, different from what we know today.
Ethanol - Understanding the Market and Prices
Ethanol – benefits, risks and challenges
Energy from sugarcane can strengthen Brazil’s electrical power system
Ethanol´s Astral Hell
Realities that replace myths
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After 30 Years of Federal Subsidies, Ethanol Can Go it Alone
Joel Velasco
 
Philip New
“Biofuels are not to blame for world hunger”
The director of British Petroleum (BP), Philip New, in a recent interview for the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, demystifies the advance of biofuels in relation to the alleged increase in world hunger. In an interview for journalist Jakok Schlandt, the executive of one of the largest energy companies in the world speaks in particular of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol.
Sustainability-Verified Brazilian Ethanol reaches Swedish pumps in August
Anders Fredrikson
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Quotes
12/07/2010
“Last year when I met with President Lula of Brazil, I knew that Brazil has made enormous progress around the clean energy sugarcane based ethanol and the possibilities of real energy independence in the region. I think those same opportunities exist for the Dominican Republic.”
President of United States, Barack Obama
03/25/2010
"It's time for the corn-based ethanol industry to stop using the American taxpayer as a crutch and finally compete on its own in our free market system"
J. Patrick Boyle, President and CEO of the American Meat Institute
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André Meloni Nassar
Siamese Twins
At the height of the international debate on the Iranian uranium enrichment program, Brazilian External Affairs Minister Celso Amorim wrote a newspaper article in which he stressed the growing importance of emerging countries on the global scene and praised the accomplishments of these countries within the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha Round of negotiations.
Stop green protectionism
*Christofer Fjellner e **Johnny Munkhammar
The economics of U.S. ethanol policy
Bruce A. Babcock
Energy: Ethanol is the Future; Oil is the Past
Adriano Pires*
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