Biofuels and energy transition policy in Brazil: contributions, limits and possibilities given the need for climate justice in the Capitalocene

Abstract

The article aims to discuss about the climate change has imposed a new agenda in the scope of international relations, bringing to regulation the need for reconciliation between different fields of knowledge, such as law, study of energy, issues of an economic, political and social nature, with multiple interests, agendas, demands that need to be modulated, not in favor of immediate interests, but of future generations. In this way, based on the concepts of climate justice and energy transition, the work seeks to analyze the role of biofuels within the Brazilian energy transition strategy. It was presented how the Capitalocene is responsible for an unprecedented crisis that threatens the existence of life on the planet. It was highlighted that technologies need to be more than sustainable, as it is no longer enough to be renewable, they also need to have low CO2 emissions, to be able to break the catastrophic future that lies ahead. In this context, Brazilian biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel stand out in comparison to the array of electric engines in the reorganization of the fleet of light and cargo vehicles, in the definition of transition policy.