Alcohol in Brazil is not only used to prepare Caipirinhas and Mojitos (Brazilian traditional drinks) but also, we take advantage from it and use as a sustainable energy.

Brazil has grown sugar cane for 500 years and it is by far the world’s biggest exporter of it. The country exports 70% of its sugar production and 75% of its ethanol output is still sold at home.

Biofuels, mainly derived from sugar, are Brazil’s most important source of energy after oil. The ethanol is blended with gasoline and used as an automobile fuel in countries such as Brazil, USA, EU, Mexico, India, Argentina, Colombia and recently Japan.

Specialists say that the ethanol market will grow and the sugar industry can triple its electricity co-generation capacity 15.000mw (around 27% of Brazil’s demand today) from its present acreage of cane. Until a world ethanol market takes off, Brazil’s producers will stay uncomfortably dependent on domestic sales and on Petrobras (the national oil giant). The company is both their biggest customer (because it buys ethanol to mix with petrol) and their top competitor (because its petrol competes with all-ethanol biofuels). It is also the fourth-biggest ethanol producer itself.

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Rio de Janeiro (English pronunciation: /riːoʊ deɪ ʒəˈnɛəroʊ/ or /ˈriːoʊ deɪ dʒəˈnɛəroʊ/; local Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈxiu dʒi ʒaˈnejɾu], River of January), commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, 6th largest in the Americas, and 26th in the world.

The Amazon Rainforest (in Portuguese, Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia; French: Forêt amazonienne; Dutch: Amazoneregenwoud), also known as Amazonia or Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world.