Alongside the United States and India, Brazil is part of the list of founding countries of the Global Biofuels Alliance. The group was launched in September this year, during the G20 summit in New Delhi, and has 19 countries, as well as more than a dozen international organizations.

The alliance's mission is to promote the use of biofuels in the world, to meet the commitments made by the world in the Paris Agreement, in order to contain global warming and its effects. The alliance's strategy is to create a “bioenergy belt” in the tropical zone, to disseminate the production and consumption of biofuels, with an emphasis on ethanol, biodiesel, biomethane and aviation biokerosene.

In this audacious project, Brazil occupies a prominent position. In addition to being a reference in the new global energy geopolitics, we have the mission of helping countries, especially those in the Global South, to follow a path towards offering and guaranteeing the supply of sustainable energy.

This part of the planet, known as the Global South, brings together around 3 billion people, who can benefit from the decarbonization of their countries with the adoption of biofuels. To achieve this, it is essential that we have global cooperation work to give traction to what will be one of the carbonization routes adopted around the world.

Our role is to bring to the world the success we have already achieved, through more than 40 years of experience in using ethanol in our fleet, demonstrating that it is possible to have sustainable, efficient and cheaper mobility for the populations of many countries.

We managed to master ethanol technology from the countryside to the automobile industry. We developed the flex engine and we arrive at hybrid- flex vehicles. The latter, fueled 100% with ethanol, have emissions equivalent to electric cars that run in Brazil. Over time, we reached a level worthy of admiration.

The Global Alliance itself is a consequence of the recognition that Brazil has received on the topic of biofuels, especially for the successful sharing of our experience with India, with impressive effects there. We have already inspired them to increase the ethanol blend in gasoline from 2% to the current 10%. And that will reach 20% in two years.

But the countries' alliance is not restricted to land transport. It would be impossible to leave out of this debate what is to come in aviation. The International Civil Aviation Organization has set a goal of Net Zero for all its members by 2050.

According to the International Air Transport Association, 65% of the aviation emission cut will come from replacing fossil fuel, currently used in aircraft, with Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Last year, global production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel reached 300 million liters, a fraction of the 450 billion liters needed to meet industry demand in 2050.

To not go that far, the United States and Europe are discussing the adoption of 5% Sustainable Aviation Fuel using fossil kerosene by 2026. If approved, the imminent demand for Sustainable Aviation Fuel would be in the order of 20 billion liters.

Not all of Brazil's ethanol would be enough to meet this demand.

As you can see, the challenge is not small. The concerns of different public spheres, regarding the capacity of their political systems to act effectively and decisively to solve the problem of global warming and climate change, are evident. It will be necessary for countries to implement efficient governance systems, capable of maintaining the Global Alliance initiative, not as a government project, but as a State project.

Here, the federal government has already signaled that Brazil will not shy away from facing known challenges and those that will still arise. In the person of the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, the Federal Government embraced the cause of biofuels and the global alliance, bringing to the world the possibilities of generating employment and income, lower consumer prices and reducing the carbon footprint in the energy sector transport.

But we have already gone further. If one of the meanings of governance is to provide direction, whether in the public or private sphere, there are themes that will bring collective impacts, the Combustível do Futuro program is a clear example of this. The bill, signed by President Lula and already forwarded to the Federal Congress, addresses fundamental issues for the future of mobility and recognizes the determining role that biofuels played in the country.

Anchored in the most advanced science, Brazil built an energy transition program, which listened to all expressions from civil society, with space for businesspeople and workers to make their contributions. We have already reached where the world still wants to be, and will be, in a few years.

We have a responsibility to lead other nations, especially those that have not yet experienced the fruits of development, along this path. We have everything to offer the Global South a model of leadership and governance based on example and cooperation.

The Global Biofuels Alliance, due to the way it was structured and the search for the collective good, is the opportunity we have to take the place of the already worn-out fight for hegemony.