BIOEN-FAPESP
BIOEN Workshop on the impact of land use change and biofuel crops on soils and the environment (16/6/2009)
Program
9h - Welcome coffee
9h30 - Opening ceremony
10h - Prospects of the sugarcane bioenergy sector (Marcos Jank, Unica, São Paulo, Brazil)
10h20 - Ecology and sustainability of biofuels (Evan H. Delucia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, EUA)
11h10 - Emission and mitigation of greenhouse gases in the production and use of ethanol from sugarcane (Isaias de Carvalho Macedo, Nipe-Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil)
12h - Discussion
12h30 - Lunch
14h - Contributions of land use change to the greenhouse gas budget of biofuels (Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, EUA)
14h40 - Stock of carbon and greenhouse gases production associated with sugarcane cultivation in Brazil (Carlos C. Cerri, CENA/USP, Piracicaba, Brazil)
15h20 - Variations in carbon stock and greenhouse gases emission in tropical and subtropical soils of Brazil (Segundo Urquiaga, Embrapa Agrobiologia, Seropédica, Brazil)
16h - Discussion
16h30 - Conclusions and research needs. (Speakers and invited debaters: J.E. Corá and C.E.P. Cerri)