Thursday, November 21, 2013
12:30-1:45 PM
(a light lunch will be served – no RSVP, first-come first-served)
Murrow Room
The Fletcher School
160 Packard Avenue, Medford

View the event flyer

Open to the public. Convened by the Sustainable Development Diplomacy and Governance Program of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher.

Dr. Moreira will present an update on ethanol and bioelectricity co-production in Brazil, followed by a discussion about its near-term potential to further mitigate climate change in the transportation sector through the synergistic use of ethanol and electricity in hybrid cars. Finally, he will show how ethanol derived efficiently from sugar fermentation can be used as a negative GHG emission fuel and as the starting point to promote Biomass Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies. He has played a major role in the development of Brazil’s extensive biofuels program.

José Roberto Moreira is professor of Energy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He began his career as professor of Physics at the University of Sao Paulo in 1971. He was an energy expert at Princeton University from 1979-1980, and in 1987, he moved to the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of Sao Paulo, where he launched a graduate program in Energy/Environment. Dr. Moreira joined the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1994 to 2011 and was one of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. He has also worked for several other United Nations Programs and is author of more than 200 books and papers on Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, Energy Conservation, Energy Planning and Environment. Outside of the University he was director of Companhia Energetica de São Paulo from 1983 – 1987, Secretary of Energy at the Ministry of Mines and Energy from 1985 – 1986, executive director of the Biomass Users Network from 1992 – 1997, and is presently director of NEGAWATT, a private engineering company.