Uploaded on 2017-06-21 by Pedro Gontijo

My country is Brazil 1.Oil Products 2.Transport 3.In order to decrease the emission of CO2, we must analyze various factors in the country: Transport is responsible for the bigger part of Oil Products use, the most CO2 production, and the numbers of cars has been increasing year after year in Brazil. A good public transport policy could affect this number significantly, because people wouldn’t have to use their own cars to work or go out, they could use a high quality public transport, clean, safe, and equally important, serving most of the neighborhoods in the city. To improve even more this strategy, together with the new public transport policy, the type of public transport vehicles could be changed from fossil fuel to electric fuel. In São Paulo there are some bus lines that uses electrical vehicles, however, it requires a considerable amount of cables and infrastructure that stays hanging above people’s head (as shown in the attached photo). The city offers some hybrid buses too, which consists in a bus with two engines: one that works on electricity and one that works on diesel. The bus moves thanks to the diesel engine, but when it stops on a red light or a traffic jam, the electrical engine takes over and turns off the diesel. This solution is helpful, but they are still throwing CO2 in our atmosphere. The buses could be changed by cable cars/trams like in San Francisco or Lisbon, but with the modernity offered in the Rio de Janeiro’s VLT (Veículo Leve sobre Trilhos – Light Vehicle Rail), that works with electricity instead of fossil fuel. Because its privileged position in the tropics, Brazil receives a great amount of solar energy that hasn’t been explored to its full potential yet. A new policy encouraging the development of solutions based on solar power could help to decrease the CO2 emission as well. http://viatrolebus.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/onibus-eletrico.jpg (Electric bus in São Paulo) http://viatrolebus.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/tn_br-Rio_tram_testing_3-800x500.jpg (Rio de Janeiro's VLT)