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Sugar and the Sustainable Development Goals
José Orive
Executive Director
International Sugar Organization
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Continue where the Millennium Development Goals left off;
• Identified 17 goals and 169 targets
• Key recommendation: get everyone involved
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Sugar Sector
• Can contribute (and has done so) in a number of ways
• Individual approaches – reflecting own priorities;
• Industry-led best management practices;
• Governments – Policies
• Research & Development
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Responsible Consumption/Production and Decent Work
• Goals 8 and 12 deal with providing decent and safe working environments, ensuring economic growth and promoting consumption and production in a sustainable manner.
• Use of agrochemicals, water use, workers safety and rights, land rights, etc.
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Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation
• Goal 9 deals with the promotion of investments in infrastructure, as well as fostering technological progress in order to achieve increased resource and energy efficiency.
• Sugar sector has a long history in fostering innovation and new technologies.
• Challenge of input costs;
• Climate change adaptation;
• Opportunities for adding value through diversification
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Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation
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Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation
• Innovation fostered through government and private sector;
• For sugar beet, innovation and research policies promoted by the EU have been key to promote R&D. CIBE has played an important role in communicating and disseminating innovation and best practices.
• For sugarcane, the industry has played a central role in promoting, organizing and financing research and development.
• South-African Sugar Research Institute;
• CENICAÑA – Colombia;
• CENGICAÑA - Guatemala;
• West Indies Central Sugarcane Breeding Station;
• Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (Brazil);
• Government also funds sugarcane research – Brazil: IAC, RIDESA. India: Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore
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Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation
• Diversification also drives innovation• Ethanol, cogeneration of energy, and
bio-based products such as biochemicalsand bioplastics
• Helped recently by policies that ban or aim to reduce single-use plastics.
• Global production capacity of bioplastics reached 2.05 mln tonnes in 2017
• 56% in Asia, 18% Europe, 16% North America, 10% South America
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Affordable and Clean Energy
• Calls for ensuring universal access to modern energy services, improving energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy.
• National priorities and policies paramount to achieving this.
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Affordable and Clean Energy
• How does sugar fit in?• Fuel Ethanol
• Bagasse-based cogeneration of energy
• Ethanol cooking gels
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Affordable and Clean Energy
• Drivers of renewable energy• Mitigate emissions;
• Sustainable economic growth
• Energy security
• Who is driving this change?• National and local governments
• Private sector
• Consumer preference
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Affordable and Clean Energy
• Bagasse Cogeneration• Capacity increasing significantly over the years
• Diversifies revenue streams
• But how does it compare to other renewables?
Cogen Capacity (MW)
2014 2017
Brazil 9881 11158
India 4014 8414
Thailand 1057 1295
Guatemala 711 1081
Mexico 673 846
Australia 466 466
Philippines 63 360
Mauritius 271 281
Pakistan 217 280
El Salvador 130 264
Colombia 215 263
Indonesia 219 219
Honduras 142 210
USA 200 200
Nicaragua 134 177
Peru 37 137
Ethiopia 38 110
Uganda 64 102
Kenya 49 82
eSwatini 55 70
Argentina 65 65
Ecuador 58 58
Zimbabwe 53 53
Belize 32 50
Dominican R. 14 48
Angola 0 45
Costa Rica 40 40
Zambia 30 35
Tanzania 17 33
Fiji 8 15
Total 18953 26455
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Affordable and Clean Energy
• Fuel Ethanol
• Blend-policy driven
• Production has increased over the years
• Concentrated in US and Brazil - #1 and #2 producers (together respond for around 85% of global production)
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Affordable and Clean Energy
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Affordable and Clean Energy
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2007 60.9 38.7 27.4 22.9 6.5 1.7 0.8 158.9
2008 74.8 61.5 18.2 17.5 7.6 1.7 0.2 181.5
2009 79.5 64 10.2 15.1 6.2 2.8 0.3 178.1
2010 101.5 103.3 10.6 16.9 8.2 2.9 0.2 243.6
2011 87.2 158.1 10.6 20.2 7.6 3.9 0.2 287.8
2012 83.6 140.5 7.2 15.8 6.5 1.6 0.3 255.5
2013 86.4 119.9 5.2 14 5.8 2.8 0.2 234.3
2014 110.7 145.3 5.2 12.7 7 2.9 0.3 284.1
2015 124.7 179.3 3.5 9.4 3.6 2.5 0.2 323.2
2016 121.6 136.5 2.1 7.3 3.9 2.5 0.2 274.1
2017 107.2 160.8 2 4.7 2 1.6 0.2 278.5
• Fuel ethanol, biomass investment falling
• Policy-driven
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Climate Action
• Calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
• Paris Agreement – COP 21.• Aim to keep temperatures below 2 deg C and limit the
increase even further to 1.5 deg C
• Nationally Determined Contributions – NDCs• Mitigation + adaptation
• 145 countries mention renewable energy in their NDCs
• 87 countries specifically mention bioenergy
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Climate Action
• IPCC Report:
• Current NDCs on mitigation and adaptation insufficient to stay below Paris Agreement temperature limits;
• Only through use of several different forms of renewable energy at once, starting now, can we achieve 1.5C temperature goal
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Climate Action
• IPCC Report:
• Modelling scenarios suggest that biofuel use will have to more than double by 2030 and go even further in 2050 to contain global warming below 1.5C.
• Biofuels are essential and complementary solutions to decarbonize transportation.
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Challenges and Opportunities
• Promoting a bio-based economy in a world with relatively low oil prices
• Promoting the use of bioenergy – through blending mandates for ethanol, feed-in tariffs or auctions that promote grid-connected bagasse cogen energy projects.
• Adds value, new revenue streams, generates clean energy, promotes energy resilience and security, provides employment;
• Electrification and increased use of biofuels go hand-in-hand to combat climate change;
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