“…A large amount of RLB used came from sugarcane residues (Vandenberghe et al, 2022 ), oil palm (Vanegas Escudero, 2019 ), rice (Cañon et al, 2022 ), and trees such as eucalyptus (Mendoza-Martinez et al, 2023 ). In South America, biogas (Ferreira et al, 2018 ; Tena et al, 2022 ; Maciel-Silva et al, 2019 ; Peres et al, 2019 ), syngas (Martinez et al, 2021 ; Furtado Júnior et al, 2020 ), hydrogen (Rojas et al, 2020 ), thermal energy (Martillo et al, 2020 ; Aseffe et al, 2019 ; Salgado et al, 2019 ; Pérez Arévalo and Velázquez Martí, 2020 ; Aguilar Romero, 2019 ; Machuca et al, 2020 ), bio-oil (Vanegas Escudero, 2019 ), torrefaction products (Talero et al, 2019 ; Vega et al, 2019 ), pellets (da Silva et al, 2020a ; da Silva et al, 2022 ; de Souza et al, 2020 ), and briquettes (Mendoza Fandiño et al, 2020 ) were produced for biofuels and/or energy. Regarding the review on the production of platform molecules, it was found that Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, and Uruguay had a lower participation in the production of ethanol, HMF, FF, and LA.…”