SPECIAL ENVOYMENT FOR NEW DELHI Brazil, the United States and India have this Saturday, the 9th Global Biofuel Alliance (GBA, the acronym in English). The initiative aims to promote the production and use of Biofuels, particularly ethanol, as an alternative energy source for less polluting transportation than fossil fuels. The three countries are among the five largest ethanol producers in the world.
The launch took place in a short ceremony on the sidelines of the summit G20, group of the world’s largest economies, in India. There were no official speeches. Only the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra ModiHe pressed a light bulb to symbolize the formation of the coalition.
Brazil, the United States and India are launching the Global Biofuels Alliance, a joint initiative to promote the production and use of ethanol as an alternative energy source for transportation that is less polluting than fossil fuels. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
The presidents attended the ceremony Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Joe Biden (USA), Alberto Fernández (Argentina); Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni (Italy) and Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh); Prime Ministers Lee Hsien Loong (Singapore), Narendra Modi (India), Pravind Jugnauth (Mauritius) and a government representative from the United Arab Emirates. They posed for photos holding hands.
The leaders of Canada and South Africa were expected to attend, but the countries did not send authorities to the ceremony. Canada and Singapore are initially participating as observers of the alliance, not as founding members.
How the Estadao As it turned out, the new alliance will bring together a total of 19 countries. With a total of twelve members, organizations from the international public and private sectors as well as from member countries are also represented. According to the Brazilian government, the alliance is open to new members. However, experts believe that demand for ethanol is still low. The industry expects that the use of flex fuel cars consolidated in Brazil will expand to India and other participants in the future.
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“Our challenge is to ensure global supply in a relevant bioenergy belt. The demand exists,” said Sugarcane and Bioenergy Industry Union (Única) President Evandro Gussi. “Electrification alone is not capable of achieving the decarbonization that the world needs today or in 10, 30 or 50 years.” It is not. There is no one with any scientific basis who can say that.”
An institutional video promoted the GBA as a way to avoid transport emissions and ensure energy security. According to the Indian and Brazilian governments, biofuel production must triple by 2030 for the world to reach netzero emissions by 2050. The data mentioned comes from the International Energy Agency.