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Biofuture Platform Declaration on Sustainable Chemicals and Materials launched at COP30

Biofuture Platform Declaration on Sustainable Chemicals and Materials launched at COP30

November 19, 2025 |

In Brazil, government representatives and industry leaders recently announced the launch of the Biofuture Platform Declaration on Sustainable Chemicals and Materials, a landmark international statement to accelerate the transition from fossil carbon to sustainable carbon feedstocks in the global chemical industry. The Declaration was developed under the auspices of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture […]

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Brazilian airline group signs MOU with Sumitomo to decarbonize air transport

Brazilian airline group signs MOU with Sumitomo to decarbonize air transport

November 17, 2025 |

In Brazil, Abra Group, which brings together the airlines GOL, Avianca and Wamos Air, with Sumitomo Corporation of Brazil, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, a leading integrated and active trade company in various sectors through a global network, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the identification of industrial solutions aimed at the decarbonization […]

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Greenpeace condemns Toyota’s biofuel-powered prototype vehicles as misleading

Greenpeace condemns Toyota’s biofuel-powered prototype vehicles as misleading

November 13, 2025 |

In Brazil, Greenpeace has condemned Toyota’s misleading promotion of biofuel-powered prototype vehicles as a decarbonization solution, as it ignores mounting scientific consensus that biofuels are a false climate solution that endangers both people and the planet. Greenpeace joined with Climate Action Network (CAN)  — representing over 1,900 civil society organizations worldwide — to reject the […]

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Brazil and US foregn ministers to meet to further discuss tariffs

Brazil and US foregn ministers to meet to further discuss tariffs

November 13, 2025 |

In Canada, Agencia Brasil reports Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Niágara, Canada, on the sidelines of the G7 meeting. Mauro Vieira reported that Brazil forwarded, on November 4, a proposal to negotiate with the United States, after a virtual meeting between the technical teams of the two […]

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Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and Be8 running “COP30 Sustainable Route”

Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and Be8 running “COP30 Sustainable Route”

November 12, 2025 |

In Brazil, Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and Be8 began on October 20 the “COP30 Sustainable Route”. The starting point of this trip took place on October 21, at the Be8 plant in Passo Fundo (RS). After stops at the Mercedes-Benz do Brasil headquarters, in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), on the 23rd, and now in Brasilia […]

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More than 100 scientists sign letter seeking limits to biofuel expansion

More than 100 scientists sign letter seeking limits to biofuel expansion

November 10, 2025 |

In Brazil, ahead of the COP30 climate change negotiations, over 100 members of the global scientific community, including representatives from the Union of Concerned Scientists, have signed on to a letter calling on global leaders to limit a dangerous expansion of biofuels. The letter comes as Brazil seeks high-level support for a leaders’ pledge to quadruple […]

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Equinor and USP launch $1.88M R&D program looking at CCS from ethanol plants

Equinor and USP launch $1.88M R&D program looking at CCS from ethanol plants

November 10, 2025 |

In Brazil, Equinor and the Center for Research and Innovation in Greenhouse Gas (RCGI) of the University of São Paulo (USP) announced on Wednesday during the Summit Agenda SP + Verde — event of the Government of the State of São Paulo that integrated the programming of the 8th edition of the Energy Transition Research […]

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Nearly 20 countries sign onto Belém 4X to quadruple biofuels use by 2035

Nearly 20 countries sign onto Belém 4X to quadruple biofuels use by 2035

November 10, 2025 |

In Brazil, Spanish news agency EFE reports that about twenty countries, including Chile, Mexico, Panama and Guatemala, joined the initiative to quadruple the use of biofuels until 2035, in the framework of the summit of leaders of COP30 in Belém. The initiative, co-sponsored by Brazil, Japan and Italy, aims to foster international cooperation to extend […]

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Energisa Group to invest $18.65M in Brazilian biomethane project

Energisa Group to invest $18.65M in Brazilian biomethane project

November 5, 2025 |

In Brazil, the Energisa Group has acquired 52% of Lurean, a company located in Carambeí, Paraná, and which operates in the treatment of waste and commercialization of organic fertilizer. With this acquisition, the Company’s second biomethane production plant will be built, with a production capacity of 28,000 m3/day of biomethane from its completion. The total […]

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BNDES lends Neomille $56M to expand corn ethanol production in Goias

BNDES lends Neomille $56M to expand corn ethanol production in Goias

October 29, 2025 |

In Brazil, National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) approved financing of R$ 300 million to expand the corn plant of Neomille S.A. in Chapadão do Céu (GO). The supported investments will allow the unit to increase its capacity of ethanol production of corn to up to 527,000 m3 per crop, of DDGS (dry […]

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