Uploaded on 2018-09-01 by Central 156

1. In Brazil the dominant fossil fuels are Oil Prod and Bio/waste Prod (134.4 and 85.6 Mtoe, respectively). 2. The dominant fossil fuels used in Brazil are Transport and Industry. 3. Even though brazilian government has invested throughout the past decades in renewable energy, most of it derives from hydropower and bioethanol, options that, in some areas of the country, can come with a high environmental cost. Brazil has such a large area compound of several biomes, and therefore requires a range of solutions as complex as diverse as its territory. Yet, this diversification should take into account non-hydro renewables in the electricity sector, a sustainable expansion of bioethanol, increased attention to energy efficiency across the economy, creation of support policies and subsidies for the local generation of energy delayed by solar panels and wind poles and an ambitious post 2020 climate change mitigation policy. Image attached: compact and domestic wind turbines in the very south of Brazil (where it is too cloudy for solar energy, too flat for hydropower and very windy thanks to Atlantic's trade winds).