Along with other renewable energies such as wind, solar and hydropower, bioenergy can play a critical role in supporting sustainable development, particularly in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and strengthen resilience in managing climate change.
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SOUZA, G. M. et al. Sustainable Bioenergy: Latin America and Africa. Policy Brief. Amstelveen: SCOPE, 2018, 8p.
Available at: <https://bioenfapesp.org/scopebioenergy/index.php/policy-brief/2018>.
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Authors
Coordination
- Glaucia Mendes Souza (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Maria Victoria Ramos Ballester (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Paulo Artaxo (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Luciano Martins Verdade (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Heitor Cantarella (Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, Brazil)
- Luis Augusto B. Cortez (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Scientific Advisory Committee
- Glaucia Mendes Souza (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Reynaldo Victoria (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Paulo Artaxo (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Luciano Martins Verdade (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Universidade Estadual de Campinas and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil)
- José Goldemberg (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Jon Samseth (SCOPE and Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway)
- Theo Beckers (Tilburg Sustainability Center, The Netherlands)
- Francis X. Johnson (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Kenya)
- Helena Chum (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
- Jeremy Woods (Imperial College, UK)
Discussion Leaders
- Helena Chum (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
- Patricia Osseweijer (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Carlos Klink (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
- Sergio Trindade (SE²T International, USA)
- Francis X. Johnson (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Kenya)
Rapporteurs
- Rodrigo Ciannella (World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya)
- Helen Kerr Watson (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
- Maria Victoria Ramos Ballester (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Rocio Diaz-Chavez (Imperial College London, UK)
- Hannah Wanjiru (Stockholm Environment Institute, Kenya)
Participants of the Working Groups
- Rubens Maciel Filho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
- Francisco Nigro (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Antonio Bonomi (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)
- Vyacheslav Kafarov (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia)
- Jorge Antonio Hilbert (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuária, Argentina)
- Geraldo Martha (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, USA)
- Lee R. Lynd (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Daniel Pagliano (Instituto de Biociencias Aplicadas, Uruguay)
- Marcos Silveira Buckeridge (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Ruhiza Boroto (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Ghana)
- Mirjam Roeder (University of Manchester, UK)
- Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil)
- Luuk Van Der Wielen (BE-BASIC, The Netherlands)
- Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira (Universidade Federal de Itajubá and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
- Graham Von Maltitz (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, South Africa)
- Francis D. Yamba (Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering, Zambia)
- Gerard Ostheimer (Sustainable Energy for All – SE4ALL, USA)
- Manfred Kircher (Kircher Advice in Bieconomy – KADIB, Germany)
- Manoel Regis L. V. Leal (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)
- Rui da Maia (Universidade Técnica de Moçambique, Mozambique)
- Jeffrey Skeer (International Renewable Energy Agency, USA)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Boshra Salem (Alexandria University, Egypt)
- Carlos Alfredo Joly (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
- Margarida Santos-Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- Rattan Lal (Ohio State University, USA)
- Mariana P. Massafera (BIOEN Secretariat, Brazil)
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