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THE WORLD DEBATES BIOFUELS

At the Ethanol Summit, more than a hundred scientists, producers and investors from around the world discuss the present, the future and the economic, social and environmental benefits of ethanol

FOREWORD

It is an immense pleasure for the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) to extend a warm welcome to all participants of ETHANOL SUMMIT 2009, the second edition of an event launched originally by UNICA in 2007. Once again, we have an impressive array of specialists, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, personalities and government officials from all continents, all coming together in São Paulo and interacting to help us expand our knowledge and enrich our understanding of the many pathways that make up today’s biofuels industry.

In all, close to 150 speakers and moderators will be featured in 25 panels and six plenary sessions over three days, nearly all of them webcast to a global audience, in effect making São Paulo the epicentre of a sector whose global importance grows very clearly and decisively, at the same pace that the planet demands feasible solutions for the growing threats of climate change resulting from global warming.

The broad range of ideas that we will be presented with until June 3rd is the end result of more than a full year of intense planning, involving some of the largest companies, top researchers, government specialists and other institutions connected to the world of biofuels, a project developed with significant input from a large contingent of UNICA professionals both in Brazil and stationed abroad. At all times, our search focused on the latest trends and strategies, with those that can generate concrete results in the short and medium term considered priorities.

We sincerely hope you take home from Ethanol Summit 2009 as clarifying, impacting and advanced an experience as we had in mind when we built this event, which in our view, has become a “must” among the great personal growth and knowledge expanding opportunities for all who have a significant involvement with the biofuels industry.

We wish everyone a successful, productive Summit!

Marcos Sawaya Jank
President & CEO
Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA)

OUTLINE

SUGARCANE ETHANOL. Legislative advances in industrialized countries, blending mandates and sustainability concerns throughout the world point to a positive future for sugarcane ethanol

CLIMATE CHANGE - Global warming speeds up awareness about the benefits of bioenergy State of the art research and innovative approaches result in new products from sugarcane, bagasse and straw

INTERVIEW - Expert viewpoints from the winner of the 2008 Blue Planet Prize, University of São Paulo Professor José Goldemberg

PERSPECTIVE - Looking beyond the global credit crunch, Brazil’s sugar-energy sector looks forward to medium and long term price recovery and expanding exports for sugar and ethanol

SPEAKERS - Knowledge and insight from around the world: meet the participants and their topics of discussion

TRADE SHOW - One floor above the Summit, the Brazil Ethanol Trade Show offers new technologies and innovative products and services for the biofuels industry

PIONEERS - Honda’s Brazilian flex-fuel surprise and a record breaking flex Ford Mustang that does it with ethanol

SHORTS - At the root of Brazil’s ethanol success story: former ministers João Camilo Penna and Isaías Macedo

PHRASES - What people like Barack Obama have been saying about biofuels around the world