The quest for eco-social efficiency in biofuels production in Brazil |
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| Authors: | Silvia Blajberg Schaffel Emilio Lèbre La Rovere |
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| Institution: | 1. Energy Planning Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, Sala C-211, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-972, Brazil;2. Environmental Sciences Laboratory (LIMA), Graduate School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, Sala I-208, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21949-900, Brazil;1. UFFS—Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul—Curso de Graduação em Agronomia, Avenida Getúlio Vargas, no. 609N, 2° andar/Edifício Engemed, Bairro Centro—CEP: 89812-000—Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil;2. UNISINOS—Vale do Rio dos Sinos University, PPGEPS—Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas, Av. UNISINOS, 950, Caixa Postal 275, CEP: 93022-000—São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;1. University of Sao Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Avenida Padua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, 13416-480, SP, Brazil;2. Instituto de Estudos do Comércio e Negociações Internacionais (ICONE), Avenida General Furtado Nascimento, 740 conjunto 81, São Paulo 05465-070, SP, Brazil;3. University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campus Universitario Zeferino Vaz SN—Cidade Universitaria, Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil;4. University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Campinas 13083-970, Brazil;1. NEST – Excellence Group in Thermal Power and Distributed Generation, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Itajubá, Av. BPS 1303, Itajubá, Minas Gerais State, CEP: 37500-903, Brazil;2. IRN – Institute of Natural Resources, Federal University of Itajubá, Av. BPS 1303, Itajubá, Minas Gerais State, CEP: 37500-903, Brazil;3. ICIDCA – Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones de los Derivados de la Caña de Azúcar, Via Blanca y Carretera Central 804, San Miguel Del Padrón, A.P. 4036, La Habana, Cuba |
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| Abstract: | Equating eco-efficiency with the business link to sustainable development is clearly limited, especially with the new paradigms brought up by Corporate Social Responsibility, which has shown that the private sector’s contribution to sustainable development can go far beyond the sphere of pollution control. It is necessary to give eco-efficiency a broader meaning so that it can support the quest for sustainable development. This requires the inclusion of social aspects, leading to a kind of eco-social efficiency. The present paper illustrates this idea by comparing Brazilian production and use of ethanol from sugarcane, in the context of the National Alcohol Program (Proalcool), with biodiesel production and use, in the context of the Biodiesel National Program (PNPB). Despite the problems presented, PNPB was designed to encourage companies to align productivity concerns with social ones, what could be the beginning of the here called eco-social efficiency. |
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