•Brazil is a unique environment to study climate change

•Many countries around the world look to Brazil as an example for environmental policy

•For the past quarter century, Brazil has been the world’s biggest producer and consumer of ethanol, which they use as an additive to gasoline. As a result they have been able to reduce the build up of carbon emissions in the overcrowded urban cities that house 80% of Brazilians

•Despite these efforts Brazil is the world’s eighth largest emitter of carbon emissions

•“Unlike most developed and many developing countries, Brazil's energy sector contributes little to the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Unsustainable land use and forestry contribute most.” – www.scidev.net