Sustainable energy strategies require decision-makers in government, industry, academia and civil society alike to make choices among tradeoffs. Within the transport sector alone, ethanol has been shown to be the dominant solution among viable, low carbon options to date, yet questions remain...

Apesar de serem reconhecidamente importantes, o valor das perdas de produtos agrícolas é de difícil mensuração a partir dos dados econômicos mundiais. Estudo conduzido pela FAO (Gustavsson et al., 2011) buscou suprir esta deficiência, fornecendo estimativas para grupos de países...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the SSG and a simulation of its effects for Brazilian sugar exports to countries such as the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) bloc. A first stage involved the identification of tariff lines (TL) for the EU and the US sugar imports from...

The paper estimates how much of the amazon deforestation is due to the consumption of goods and services from households who live within the amazon region itself, comparing it to deforestation driven by consumers who live outside amazon. As the Brazilian Amazon contains 5 big metropolitan...