Mês: fevereiro 2019

Voluntary Certification of Carbon Emission in Brazil – The Experience of an Electricity Trader

Abstract Few countries in the world have such availability of natural resources as Brazil. Even so, the country records increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to electricity, and this is due to political and economic factors. This chapter shows the experience of the largest Brazilian power trader in its pioneering effort to develop voluntary certifications …

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Environmental Traps in the Brazilian Electric Sector – A Short Note

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Submission: January 25, 2019; Published: February 04, 2019 *Corresponding author: Fernando Amaral de Almeida Prado, Universidade de São Paulo, Paulo Orozimbo 675 room 101 Cambuci, Zip Code 01535001, São Paulo SP, Brazil Opinion Brazil has 162.7GW capacity of power plants, 64% of which are from hydroelectric plants, mostly of them …

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