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FAPESP BIOENERGY PROGRAM - BIOEN

The BIOEN Program aims to integrate comprehensive research on sugarcane and other plants that can be used as biofuel sources, thus assuring Brazil’s position among the leaders in the area of Bioenergy. Research includes from biomass production and processing to biofuel production and its impacts.
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BIOEN WORKSHOP ON THE IMPACT OF LAND USE CHANGE AND BIOFUEL CROPS ON SOILS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

 

PROGRAM

 

9:00 h Welcome Coffee


9:30 h Opening Ceremony

 

10:00 h Marcos Jank (UNICA, São Paulo, Brazil)

Prospects of the Sugarcane Bioenergy Sector

 

10:20 h Evan H. Delucia  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, EUA)

Ecology and Sustainability of Biofuels

 

11:10 h Isaias de Carvalho Macedo (NIPE-Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil)

Emission and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in the Production and Use of Ethanol from Sugarcane

 

12:00 h Discussion


12:30 h Lunch

 

14:00 h Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira (University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, EUA)

Contributions of Land Use Change to the Greenhouse Gas Budget of Biofuels

 

14:40 h Carlos C. Cerri (CENA/USP, Piracicaba, Brazil)

Stock of Carbon and Greenhouse Gases Production Associated with Sugarcane Cultivation in Brazil

 

15:20 h Segundo Urquiaga (Embrapa Agrobiologia, Seropédica, Brazil)

Variations in Carbon Stock and Greenhouse Gases Emission in Tropical and Subtropical Soils of Brazil


16:00 h Discussion

 

16:30 h Conclusions and Research Needs

Speakers and invited debaters: J.E. Corá and C.E.P. Cerri