Lula opened yesterday the new plant of Braskem in Triunfo (Rio Grande do Sul) where plastic is made from Ethanol.
Two weeks ago Coca Cola Brasil launched it’s new “plantbottle’ in which 30% of the plastic consists of plastic made from ethanol.
Lula ceized the opportunity to claim that “while they -the developed countries- talk and set the rules, we here in Brazil talk less and do more”. He reminded of the promises he made in Copenhagen: reduce deforestation by 80% and CO2 emissions by 39% by 2020.
And let’s have a look to those CO2 emissions today; more specifically the CO2 emissions per capita (the only fair comparison measure, why would one human being have more right to emit CO2 than another?). Ever since 1997 the CO2 emissions per capita in Brazil have been stable on 1,9 metric tons per capita. The average in the world went slightly up from 4,2 metric tons in 1997 until 4,4 metric tons today. This means that the average CO2 emission per capita is 230% higher worldwide than in Brazil. But let’s look then to the United states: 20,1 metric tons per capita in 1997 and 19,3 metric tons per capita today. No significant decrease whatsoever and 1000% more (10 times as much !) CO2 emissions per capita then in Brazil. 10 times as much. Belgium has with 10,2 metric tons per capita 5 times as much emissions as Brazil and South Africa has a surprising high emission per capita of 8,7 metric tons per capita (and rising !); this is mainly due to South Africa’s addiction to coal for electricity production.
If Brazil reduces it’s total emissions by 39% until 2020 and knowing that Brazil’s population will grow from 196 million today to 219 million in 2020 (12% growth); this means that the CO2 emission per capita would be reduced by 51% from 1,9 metric tons today until 0,97 metric tons per capita in 2020. To obtain the same goals, Belgium would have to reduce it’s current 10,2 metric tons to 5,1 metric tons per capita and the United States would have to cut 9,5 metric tons per capita in the coming 10 years. Still then, the United States would be emitting 10 times as much CO2 per capita as Brazil.
Tags: Braskem, C02 emissions per capita, Coca cola, plantbottle, Plastic ethanol
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