125 Sugar And Ethanol Plants Sign Up To Brazil’s Environmental Protocol For The Sugarcane Industry
Biopact:
The Brazilian government’s ‘Environmental Protocol for the Sugar-Ethanol Sector’ has so far received [* in Portuguese] the signatures of 125 plants in São Paulo state, the country’s main sugarcane region. The protocol is aimed at phasing out the practise of burning sugarcane leaves before harvest cycles, by 2017.
This greatly improves the already strong carbon balance of ethanol by reducing emissions. However, it also implies a boost to the trend towards mechanised harvesting. Other directives contained in the protocol allow it to become the basis of environmental certification that will facilitate the export of ethanol to countries that threaten to enforce strict, and sometimes protectionist, sustainability criteria.
The number of signatories already surpasses the goal set out by the Ministry of the Environment, which aimed for 100 to 120 adherents in 2007. Read full article.
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