S\u00e3o Paulo – The minister of Energy and Climate Change of the United Kingdom, Ed Miliband, visited the city of Piracicaba, in the interior of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, to get to know the Costa Pinto Plant, owned by the Cosan group. During the visit, which took place last Saturday (1st), the minister watched a presentation given by the president of the S\u00e3o Paulo Sugarcane Agroindustry Union (Unica), Marcos Jank, about the sector in Brazil and the priority given to climate change issues.<\/p>\n
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, alongside ethanol production and consumption, has been attracting increasing interest from the government of United Kingdom. During the visit, Miliband showed particular interest in the possibility of energy cogeneration (bioeletricity) during the production process through the burning of cane straw and bagasse, as well as in the possibility of producing second-generation ethanol. The minister also got in a harvester during the visit to the plant, and was enthusiastic about what he saw.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue of climate change attracts great interest in Europe, particularly among the British, and ethanol from sugarcane is an important tool for these countries to achieve their goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d said Jank in a release issued by the Unica press office.<\/p>\n
During the presentation, Jank told the British minister that the emission of approximately 600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide had been prevented since the implementation of the ethanol program in Brazil, in the mid-1970s. The figure is equivalent to the planting of 6 billion trees in 20 years.<\/p>\n
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