10.5061/DRYAD.222J0
Jaiswal, Deepak
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
De Souza, Amanda P.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Larsen, Søren
University of Sao Paulo
LeBauer, David S.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Miguez, Fernando E.
Iowa State University
Sparovek, Gerd
University of Sao Paulo
Bollero, Germán
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Buckeridge, Marcos S.
University of Sao Paulo
Long, Stephen P.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Data from: Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative
to crude oil use
Dryad
dataset
2018
Energy security
Carbon dioxide
land use change
1979-2010
Intensification
sustainability
Ethanol
carbon di oxide
oil
Saccharum officinarum
Climate-change Mitigation
Pasture
food security
fossil-fuel
2040-2050
Bioenergy
Climate Sciences
Energy and Society
Environmental Sciences
2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3410
https://github.com/djaiswal/SugarcaneBrazill
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Reduction of CO2 emissions will require a transition from fossil fuels to
alternative energy sources. Expansion of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol1, 2
provides one near-term scalable solution to reduce CO2 emissions from the
global transport sector. In contrast to corn ethanol, the Brazilian
sugarcane ethanol system may offset 86% of CO2 emissions compared to oil
use, and emissions resulting from land-use change to sugarcane are paid
back in just 2–8 years3, 4. But, it has been uncertain how much further
expansion is possible given increasing demand for food and animal feed,
climate change impacts and protection of natural ecosystems. We show that
Brazilian sugarcane ethanol can provide the equivalent of
3.63–12.77 Mb d−1 of crude oil by 2045 under projected climate change
while protecting forests under conservation5 and accounting for future
land demand for food and animal feed production. The corresponding range
of CO2 offsets is 0.55–2.0 Gigatons yr−1. This would displace 3.8–13.7% of
crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% of net CO2 emission globally relative
to data for 20146, 7.
Estimates of Land Area for Sugarcane Expansion in BrazilThis is a zipped
shapefile with data on land area for 557 microregions of
Brazillandavailability.zipSugarcane yield and production projection in
Brazilzipped file contains four different shapefiles. One is for sugarcane
yield projection under historical and future projection of climate in
Brazil. Remaining three shapefiles correspond to production or delivery of
biomass at the mill under the three different land use
scenarios.yield_and_production.zipAnalyses in RThis folder provides codes,
inputs, and output data and output Figures which were generated during
this study.analyses.zipGitHub djaiswal/SugarcaneBrazillR packages required
for running the analyses
Brazil