The order of the day, in the elaboration, construction and execution of processes and economic projects with social reach, is their environmental sustainability and their greater social insertion. To this end, governments and companies include or require, in these projects, the concept and applicability of environmental, social and corporate governance practices.

The need for this environmental and corporate governance imposes the feasibility of these ventures with issues of fundamentals in today's bioeconomy and bioenergy and its perspective for the future, less by the simplistic "politically correct" and much more by the "environmentally correct", contributing to the reduction of the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere and the slowdown of climate change, which cause the devastation of floods and droughts, atypical extreme heat and cold, erratic volatility of the regular seasons of the climate and the disruptive implications for the social organization of social communities, notably the most poor.

Humanity watched, with satisfaction, all the changes in habits, the acceleration of progress and the reduction of poverty with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, and with the “age of oil”, in the second half of the 19th century, with its heyday in the 20th century.

Technological development, cost reduction in transformation processes and the expansion of energy use to improve people's day-to-day well-being have become the only motivators in development for a greater supply of these benefits. Notably, the availability of energy from fossil fuel, oil, stored for thousands of years in the subsoil and at the bottom of the oceans, constituted the great technological advance of civilization at that time.

In this process, the use of liquid fuels on a large scale, diesel and gasoline, assumed great prominence to facilitate the movement of people and materials. Accelerated population growth has increasingly demanded increased consumption in the combustion of these fuels, resulting in the corresponding and inevitable release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Since then, a symmetry has been identified between this discharge of carbon dioxide and many changes in the climate behavior of various regions of the planet, generating tragedies and social and agricultural disarrangements of great proportions. It is also a fact that this excessive release of carbon dioxide came concomitantly with the release of other gases from other industrial and urban activities that, together, began to contribute to the formation of the greenhouse effect, and the decisive contribution is scientifically proven as measured by global warming. progressive loss of oceanic waters and the reflections in the atypical melting of the polar layers and in the interruption of the natural process of evaporation of the planet's waters into the atmosphere.

As it couldn't be otherwise, science and technology were called upon to look into solutions for inhibiting or reducing the speed of this negative process for the planet's climate balance and the consequent reduction of these effects on people's lives. Thus, in a clear and unequivocal way, biology, chemistry and physics offer us the solution to this uncomfortable problem, with the defense of the greater use of bioenergy, renewable energy, from clean sources to become the lever that will operate the systems of current industrial technology and social mobility.

The order, which is imposed, of socially just and environmentally correct civilizing coexistence for the balance of our planet is to reduce the footprint of carbon dioxide in the coming and going of people and in the current industrial transformation processes. The opportunity, as never before, is Brazilian for this historic, integrated and sustainable process of planetary transformation required by all committed to the well-being of human beings.

Brazil, half a century ago, developed its biofuel, ethanol, with large production and efficient distribution system, and is able to lead this transformation process, either because of the significance of this experience for the rest of the world, or, above all, for the importance that this activity assumed in the national development, in the regional integration and in the certification of the production of the most environmentally relevant biofuel ethanol when compared with all the low carbon vehicle motorization processes under study or development in the world.

The technical and scientific studies already known to the public, the manifestations of the national automobile industry and the well-founded opinion of the academy regarding the production and use of ethanol in Brazil recommend that we concentrate the efforts of public policy and business technological development on this biofuel. Without discussing, at this moment, physical and chemical aspects, we allow ourselves to highlight:

By law, the production and distribution of ethanol in the country began to be carried out and qualified through certification, by internationally accredited agents, as a result of a methodology required by RenovaBio, the National Biofuel Policy, through which producers are encouraged to produce without deforestation and with the lowest carbon footprint in its agricultural-industrial process. Due to its content, this policy represents the largest decarbonization program known today.

With regard to vehicle motorization itself, flex-fuel combustion cars powered by ethanol already emit half of carbon dioxide (60 grams) when compared to electric vehicles in Europe (120 grams), if the process is correctly considered by the fuel life cycle. The natural and automatic adaptation of ethanol combustion engines, with electric vehicle motorization through hybrid cars, is a process in use.

The production of ethanol from sugarcane biomass, resulting from photosynthesis, is the protagonist of a tangible solar energy event. The environmental benefits that ethanol provides in terms of decarbonization are concrete and indisputable, becoming a facilitator in the fulfillment of the goals assumed by Brazil in the World Agreements on the environment and the necessary adoption of energy use processes without stimulating the “greenhouse effect”.

The stimulus and integration that Brazil has been developing with African and Asian countries for the production of ethanol in these regions contribute to the global geopolitical reorganization, with a view to social and human development. Also noteworthy is the fact that each ethanol vehicle is a source of green hydrogen for powering future cars powered by fuel cells.

Furthermore, and no less important, the aspect of the social importance of this activity assumes notorious relevance, in our current stage of economic development, due to the thousands of jobs absorbed and the professional qualification that is practised. Undoubtedly, the “Social” of the concept of environmental, social and corporate governance practices is presented in a remarkable and prominent way in this activity.

This mass of jobs, very relevant in itself, spreads across all regions of the country, transforming this activity beyond sustainable development, insofar as it supports regional and national integration in the thousands of municipalities where production takes place.

The start of large-scale production of ethanol in our country, half a century ago, the pioneering introduction of flex-fuel cars 20 years ago, and the advance in meritocracy in production through RenovaBio , since 2018, recommend us, as a country, not to copying or importing motorization processes that do not harmonize with our consolidated sugar-energy pole, due to its relevant environmental delivery, its economic and social weight in the national integration in production and the full insertion in the concepts of bioenergy and in the postulates of bioeconomy.