SEKAB claims the "World's First Verified Sustainable Ethanol"
Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, Green Daily, South/Latin America
We're not 100 percent sure what "verified sustainable ethanol" means to everyone, but we do know that Swedish ethanol company SEKAB has worked hard to define the term. In fact, SEKAB is claiming to be the first in the world to supply this type of ethanol, which is made from Brazilian sugarcane and "is quality assured from environmental, climate and social perspectives."How does SEKAB make this claim? By assuring that the Brazilian producers develop sustainability criteria for the entire lifecycle of the ethanol, from field to fuel tank. With Brazil's questionable labor practices in the ethanol fields (denied by some), SEKAB's criteria include:
- Zero tolerance for child labour, non-organised working conditions (slave labour) and the destruction of rain forests. There are also requirements concerning working conditions, labour laws and wages.
- Harvesting is to be at least 30 per cent mechanised today and this will increase to 100 per cent by 2014.
- In terms of the climate, the demands will result in a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from farming, production and transport by at least 85 per cent compared with gasoline.
The sustainable ethanol will begin showing up in Swedish pumps in August. We've posted the company's release after the jump; it's also available as a PDF.
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