by Eduardo Leão | Jul 19, 2021
The third iteration of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) published today seeks to lend its support to the European Commission’s Fit for 55 package and strengthen goals to decarbonise energy sources. The transport sector remains one of the most challenging to...
by Eduardo Leão | May 17, 2021
“You’re on mute!” No doubt this has been one of the most repeated sentences, spoken and heard, over the past year. During countless seminars and virtual meetings, the familiar alert “you’re on mute” is often spoken in unison when someone...
by Eduardo Leão | Aug 10, 2020
Written by Eduardo Leão de Sousa, Executive-Director at UNICA The elephant is the heaviest terrestrial animal on our planet. On average, it weighs 5 tonnes. Now, imagine 100 million of them placed on a giant scale, whose balance pan is the size of a large city, such...
by Leticia Phillips | Jul 15, 2020
Policymakers around the world are working on plans which promise to phase out fossil fuels and introduce a carbon neutral environment for future generations. The European Union’s Green Deal seeks to make the Continent climate neutral by 2050, a target to be enshrined...
by Gonçalo Pereira | Jul 2, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will cause us all to think differently about the way we live. When we can enjoy seemingly minor luxuries like eating in a restaurant or walking through a reopened shopping mall a sense of normalcy may return. The Covid-19 pandemic will cause us...
by Emily Rees | Dec 18, 2019
Ursula von der Leyen has left no doubt; the European Green Deal is to become the legacy of the 2019 – 2024 European Commission. The ambition is clear and decisive: to decarbonise Europe. New targets see at least 50% of emissions cut by 2030 and carbon neutrality...
by Géraldine Kutas | Aug 30, 2019
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a vital component of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) policy to enhance America’s energy security and reduce the impact of transportation emissions on the environment. As global leaders in search for clean, renewable...
by Géraldine Kutas | Nov 26, 2018
As COP24 approaches it is clear that we are nowhere near to being on track to meet the commitments made at Paris. Much more needs to be done just to meet those obligations, and even if we did, this still wouldn’t be sufficient to contain the rise in average...
by Géraldine Kutas | Sep 26, 2018
In the week of 4 to 8 of September I was invited to the Kingsman Annual Sugar Conference in New Delhi (India) to speak about how sugarcane ethanol can contribute to decarbonizing transport and improving air quality. During that week I also had the opportunity to visit...
by Leticia Phillips | Aug 17, 2018
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) celebrates its thirteenth anniversary this month and remains a foundational energy policy that enhances America’s energy security and improves the environment. Brazilian sugarcane biofuel producers are proud of the modest but...
