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Milan, November 6 (TMNews) - From here you could take flight a sustainable way of traveling. This in fact is the first air link, experimental, from Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro with biofuel produced from sugar cane. "We believe our fuel can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 82%, but for this it is necessary that it produces a large scale, "says public relations director of Azul, the Brazilian company which aims to turn this verde.La feedstock to produce the biofuel grows here in Riberiao Preto in the State of São Paulo, where it is grown on 60% of the sugar cane from all over Brazil. Experts say that produce fuel from sugar cane is more sustainable cereals. But environmentalists and human rights defenders think differently: the biofuel has led to the expulsion of peasants from their lands, reduced food crops and resulted in an increase in land prices. "There are still many illegal actions around the deforestation and the conversion of sugar cane crops but we see that these problems are diminishing. I think that the third sector, NGOs and private companies are increasingly informing farmers to do things properly. " Despite these problems, the biofuels market is experiencing a real boom: only Brazil plans to increase production by 55% over the next ten years. (Images AFP)Source: video.ilsole24ore.com
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