3rd International Congress on Biofuels and Bioenergy

On behalf of the Conference Series LLC Conferences and the Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Congress and Expo on Biofuels & Bioenergy 2016 - a warm welcome to Sao Paulo!

The decision to select Brazil as the host for this conference was not a difficult one. Brazil has the world's first sustainable biofuels economy. With 6.19 billion gallons produced in 2014, representing over 25% of the world's ethanol fuel, Brazil ranks second in the world only next to the U.S. Brazil’s 40-year-old ethanol fuel program is based on the most efficient agricultural technology for sugarcane utilization in the world that uses modern equipment to process the feedstock to ethanol and the residue to heat and power at a high overall energy balance. Despite the recent economic crisis and supply shortage, the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol has been recognized as "the most successful alternative fuel” to date and as “advanced biofuel” due to its 61% reduction of total life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. As a global biofuel industry leader, Brazil is a policy model for other biofuels-producing countries. In a world with a massive and growing demand for electricity, heat energy and transportation fuels, Brazil is the source of many of the significant innovations needed in the race against time to make biofuels and bioenergy both cost-competitive and environmentally-friendly technologies.