The role of the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the energy transition in Brazil

• Grant number: 20/02546-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2020
• End date: February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Drielli Peyerl
• Grantee: Luis Guilherme Larizzatti Zacharias
• Host Institution: Instituto de Energia e Ambiente (IEE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/18208-8 - Transitions in energy history: development and new perspectives about the natural gas in Brazil, AP.JP

Abstract

Energy systems, with their technological characteristics and their environmental, social and economic impacts on energy production, transformation and end use, prove to be an essential and prominent sector for driving the development of a country. However, within Brazilian energy planning, economic interests have always been prioritized over related environmental aspects. The absence of an integrative and sustainable vision of the available resources prevented the environmental pillar from being equated with the economic and social pillars in the activities of the energy sector. In addition to this factor, there is an urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to prevent the advance of warming of the terrestrial system. In this context, due mainly to the climate crisis, the theme of sustainable energy transition has been increasingly studied as a strategy to address this new global problem. The integration of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), as an instrument to support decision making within the national energy sector, has the potential to improve Brazilian energy planning towards environmental sustainability. Thus, this research project seeks to understand how SEA can induce the energy transition in Brazil, analyzing the evolution of the National Energy Plans and Decennial Energy Expansion Plans published until 2020 and identifying future transition perspectives. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CIOTTA, MARIANA; PEYERL, DRIELLI; LARIZZATTI ZACHARIAS, LUIS GUILHERME; FONTENELLE, ANA LUIZA; TASSINARI, COLOMBO; MORETTO, EVANDRO MATEUS. CO2 storage potential of offshore oil and gas fields in Brazil. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL, v. 112, DEC 2021. (14/50279-4, 18/26388-9, 17/18208-8, 20/02546-4)

ZACHARIAS, LUIS GUILHERME LARIZZATTI; DE ANDRADE, ANA CLARA ANTUNES COSTA; GUICHET, XAVIER; MOUETTE, DOMINIQUE; PEYERL, DRIELLI. Natural gas as a vehicular fuel in Brazil: Barriers and lessons to learn. ENERGY POLICY, v. 167, p. 11-pg., 2022-05-21. (14/50279-4, 17/18208-8, 19/17996-8, 20/12521-9, 20/02546-4, 18/26388-9, 20/15230-5)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ZACHARIAS, Luis Guilherme Larizzatti. Rethinking the Brazilian transport sector: historical lessons learned and support paths for the energy transition.. 2022. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia (IEE/BT) São Paulo.