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  • Cop15Brasil's Channel
    This Brazilian government video tells about the agroecological zoning of sugarcane production, which sets guidelines for the expansion of sugarcane culture without harming areas with original vegetation and also important biomes such as those of the Amazon Region, the Pantanal Wetlands and the Upper Paraguay Basin. It presents the public policies that seek to promote the expansion of the sustainable production of sugar cane in the Brazilian territory as a way of producing clean and renewable energy without
    Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Dec 18, 2009
  • NYT Video on Balancing Brazil's Forests
    The New York Times Elisabeth Rosenthal tells of the efforts to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by paying landowners to preserve forests. Worth a read as it talks about how Brazil is trying to balance development and conservation, a key issue for biofuels producers. Deforestation, a critical contributor to climate change, effectively accounts for 20 percent of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions and 70 percent of the emissions in Brazil. Halting new deforestation, experts say, is as powerful a
    Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Aug 24, 2009
  • Al Gore Talks up Sugarcane Biofuels
    In his testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on January 28 2009, Al Gore was asked by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) about the myth that sugarcane is leading to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. After praising Brazil’s President Lula proposal to contain thought-less deforestation, Gore said, “it’s important to note that the exploitation of the sugarcane growing areas in Brazil, which gives a highly efficient source of ethanol, that’s efficient economically and in terms of
    Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Jun 18, 2009
  • Cattle, not Biofuels, Responsible for Amazon Destruction
    Cattle, not Biofuels, Responsible for Amazon Destruction The radical group Greenpeace just release a report that says that cattle farms, not biofuels, and the demand for cattle products, many of which end up on sale in the U.S. and Europe, is what is driving deforestation in the Amazon. Greenpeace says that one in every eight hectares destroyed globally is due to illegal cattle ranching. If not biofuels, what is driving the destruction of the Amazon? Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, pl
    Collected in SugarcaneBlog's videos Jun 18, 2009