São Paulo leads ranking of projects for the reduction of greenhouse effect gases
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The State of São Paulo, with 80 projects, leads the Brazilian ranking of carbon credit, or the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and are called the projects established under the Kyoto Protocol that allow compensation for the emission of gases causing the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere.
The information was given by the President of the Association of Brazilian Companies in the Carbon Market (Abemc), Flávio Gazani. He says the most common type of CDM projects in Brazil is the co-generation of bagasse of sugar cane into sugar and alcohol plants.
Most power is concentrated in the Southeast, especially in São Paulo, but there are also plants in the Midwest.
The second place ranking in the carbon market is occupied by the state of Minas Gerais, with 42 of CDM projects, followed by Rio Grande do Sul (34), Santa Catarina (24), Paraná (22) of Missouri and Mato Grosso (17 projects each), the Holy Spirit (11) and Mato Grosso do Sul and Rio de Janeiro (10 each).
By region, North and Northeast are those which are less representative in the ranking. The reason, according to the president of Abemc is the emission factor in the Northeast to be very low. This multiplier factor defines how many carbon credits the project generates.
In the Northeast, for example, renewable energy projects connected to the power grid, such as sugarcane bagasse projects, which export energy to the network, had the minimum emission factor. "It was 0.06%, or almost nothing," said Gazani.
He believes that the recent review of calculations, which unified the emission factor for all of Brazil, can reverse the table. "This should enable projects in North and Northeast begin to appear more, since this is a new market, still in training."
Brazil holds the leading market for carbon credits in Latin America. Gazani drew attention however to the fact that Mexico has a significant number. He says the country now holds the fourth position in global production and generation of carbon credits. The first are placed China, India and Brazil.
Gazani said that has been developed in parallel to the regulated market, the market for voluntary carbon credit, driven by initiatives of companies that have their own measures to reduce emission. Despite not having a specific regulation, this market is implicit rules that are being taken to give credibility to the projects, so they are tradable and have market value.
"This market is growing rapidly. He is not a limitation, as there is a limitation on the regulated market of 2012," said Gazani, referring to the date on which expires the determinations of the Kyoto Protocol. The treaty was concluded in 1997, the countries of the United Nations (UN) and entered into force in 2005.
The main determination of the protocol is that industrialized countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases in 5.2% on 1990 levels during the period 2008 to 2012.
Source: Agência Brasil
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