Sérgio Trindade Explained

Sérgio Trindade
Birth Date:1940 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality:Brazilian-American
Field:Chemical engineer
Work Institutions:United Nations Centre for Science and Technology, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), SE2T International
Alma Mater:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Awards:IPCC received Nobel Peace Prize, 2007

Sérgio Campos Trindade (14 December 1940[1] — 18 March 2020) was a Brazilian chemical engineer and researcher, specialist in renewable energies and consultant in sustainable business. Trindade was the coordinating lead author for a chapter of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Methodological and Technical Issues in Technology Transfer (2000); the IPCC as an organization won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of its contributors' work.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 1986, Trindade was appointed as the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development,[7] [8] [9] a position he retained until January 1991.[10] He was a member of the Scientific Committee for Environmental Problems, an agency associated with UN for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco).[11]

Early life and education

Trindade was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he graduated in chemistry at the Federal University.[12] In 1973, he obtained his doctorate (published as S.C. Trinidade) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a doctoral thesis on the subject of "Studies on the magnetic demineralization of coal".[13] [14]

Research

Trindade has studied biofuels and their sustainability extensively. Trindade worked with the Centro de Technologia Promon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the Brazilian Gasohol Program, which began in 1975. He examined the economics of producing alcohol for biofuels from cassava as well as from sugarcane and predicted that agricultural and distillery yield increases would be highly sensitive to alcohol economics. This program was seen as a "valuable indication of the potential of alcohol fuels".[15] [16]

Trindade helped to organize the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio-92), and to elaborate Agenda 21, the United Nations' globally applicable action plan for sustainable development.[17]

As part of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he has written about the decision-making processes and the management of technological change to address climate change. He acted as coordinating lead author for Chapter 1 of the IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change, Methodological and Technological Issues In Technology Transfer (2000).[18] [19] He was a contributing author to Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2011).[20]

Trindade served as director of science and technology for the St. Louis-based company International Fuel Technology, developing blended fuels.[2] Trindade has argued that nanotechnology can be used to develop specialized additives and biofuel/fuel blends, as part of a transition from oil to alternative forms of energy.

In 2006, as president of the consultancy firm SE2T International, Trindade led a Mexican government study into the use of biofuels. He recommended that Mexico transition away from buying expensive imported MTBE (a fossil fuel additive) and towards domestic production of ethanol-based fuels. The Mexican Congress subsequently passed a bill promoting the production and use of ethanol from sugarcane. The bill met with opposition from the state oil monopoly (Pemex) and had not been signed into law as of May 2007.[21] [22]

In speaking about Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, he said:

When evaluating a fuel from an ecological point of view, it is necessary to analyze the entire chain of its production. The sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil is the cleanest fuel ecologically, even taking into account that sugarcane harvesting is done in Brazil with the help of controlled burning of the fields, in order to facilitate the cutting of the cane. (Quando se avalia um combustível do ponto de vista ecológico, é preciso analisar toda a cadeia produtiva. O etanol de cana-de-açúcar produzido no Brasil é o combustível mais limpo ecologicamente, mesmo levando em conta que a colheita da cana é feita no Brasil com ajuda de queimadas controladas no terreno plantado, a fim de facilitar o corte.)

Trindade has emphasized the importance of engaging with stakeholders and developing long-term sustainable solutions, not just relying on technocratic or short-term solutions.[23] [24] Trindade was a lead researcher and contributor to the Worldwatch Institute's report on Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture (2012).[25] He is a co-editor of Global Bioethanol: Evolution, Risks and Uncertainties (2016), for which he wrote a chapter of use of biofuels in Africa.[26]

Death

Trindade chaired his last session on sustainability and innovation at the second World Sustainable Development Forum in Durango, Mexico, in early March 2020.[27] [28] He died from complications of COVID-19 in New York City, where he had lived for thirty years, on 18 March 2020, aged 79, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[29] [30] [31] [32] He is survived by his wife, Helena Trindade.

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Sérgio Trindade morre vítima do COVID-19. 23 March 2020. pt. ECO21.
  2. News: International Fuel director part of Nobel Peace Prize winning team . 7 January 2021 . St. Louis Business Journal . 17 Oct 2007.
  3. Web site: Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer.
  4. Web site: 20 March 2020. Brasileiro que integrou equipe vencedora do Prêmio Nobel da Paz morre por coronavírus. 21 March 2020. pt. O Globo.
  5. Web site: SERGIO C. TRINDADE. 21 March 2020. The Polar Connection, Home of Polar Research and Policy Initiative.
  6. Web site: The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2007. 21 March 2020. The Nobel Prize.
  7. 1986-01-22. Sergio C. Trindade appointed Executive Director of Centre for Science and Technology for Development. United Nations Digital Library System. en.
  8. Book: United States Congress. Official Congressional Directory. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1991. 1000. en.
  9. Book: Bakker . Hans . The World Food Crisis: Food Security in Comparative Perspective . 1990 . Canadian Scholars' Press.
  10. Energy systems, environment and development : a reader . Advanced Technology Assessment System . 1991 . UN . 6 . iv.
  11. Web site: 20 March 2020. Sérgio Trindade, brasileiro Nobel da Paz, morre vítima do coronavírus em Nova York. 9 May 2020. clicrbs. pt.
  12. Web site: Juliana Dal Piva. Sem doenças preexistentes, brasileiro morto pelo coronavírus tinha rotina saudável, diz sobrinho. 9 May 2020. Yahoo.
  13. Web site: Martins. Marília. 18 November 2007. Um brasileiro no Nobel da Paz 2007. pt. O Globo.
  14. Web site: Trinidade. S.C. (Sergio C.). 1973. Studies on the magnetic demineralization of coal. - Full Catalog Record. 2020-12-04. library.mit.edu.
  15. Book: Newcombe . Ken . Bowman . Kaye . Christie . Marion . Pokris . James . Report No.4 Energy for Development: the energy policy papers of the Lae Project . 1980 . The Australian National University . 7 January 2021.
  16. Book: Kosaric . N. . Ng . D.C.M. . Russell . I. . Stewart . G.S. . Advances in Applied Microbiology Volume 26 . Ethanol Production by Fermentation: An Alternative Liquid Fuel . 1980 . 26 . 147–227 . 10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70334-4. 9780120026265 .
  17. Ituassu . Cristiana Trindade . Oliveira . Lucia B. . Governança ambiental e o legado de Sergio Trindade (Environmental governance and the legacy of Sergio Trindade) . Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania . 31 August 2020 . 25 . 81 . 10.12660/cgpc.v25n81.82072 . 7 January 2021. free . 1843/41501 . free .
  18. Book: Scheffran . Jürgen . Froese . Rebecca . Brauch. H.. Oswald Spring . Ú.. Grin. J.. Scheffran . J. . Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace . 2016. Enabling Environments for Sustainable Energy Transitions: The Diffusion of Technology, Innovation and Investment in Low-Carbon Societies . Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace. 10 . Springer International Publishing . Switzerland . 978-3-319-43884-9 . 721–756 . 10.1007/978-3-319-43884-9_34 . en .
  19. Book: Metz . Bert . Ogunlade . Davidson . Jan-Willem . Martens . Sascha Van . Rooijen . Laura Van Wie . Mcgrory. Trindade . Sergio C.. Managing Technological Change in Support of the Climate Change Convention: Framework for Decision-Making . Methodological and Technological Issues In Technology Transfer . 2000 . Cambridge University Press. 47–67. 9780521804943 .
  20. Book: Edenhofer . Ottmar . Pichs-Madruga . Ramón . Sokona . Youba . Seyboth . Kristin . Kadner . Susanne . Zwickel . Timm . Eickemeier . Patrick . Hansen . Gerrit . Schlömer . Steffen . Stechow . Christoph von . Matschoss . Patrick . Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . 21 Nov 2011 . Cambridge University Press . 9781139505598 . 6 January 2021.
  21. News: Manda . Alex . Mexico´s Ethanol Plan Meets Resistance . Banderas / Herald Mexico . May 2007 . 6 January 2021.
  22. Book: Marco Aurelio Dos Santos . Bernardes . Trindade . Sergio C. . Nanotech Biofuels and Fuel Additives . Biofuel's Engineering Process Technology . 1 August 2011 . 103–114 . 10.5772/16955 . 978-953-307-480-1 . 27309907 . https://books.google.com/books?id=S3WfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR7 . 6 January 2021.
  23. Mueller . Charles . Reviewed Work: The Environment, Sustainable Development and Public Policies: Building Sustainability in Brazil by Clóvis Cavalcanti . Environment and Development Economics . 2002 . 7 . 2 . 386–389 . 44379376 . 7 January 2021.
  24. News: Banta Jr. . Rigoberto . Dr.Sergio Trindade, Nobel Co-laureate . 6 January 2021 . Chonnam Tribune . 16 January 2007.
  25. Book: Worldwatch Institute . Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture . 2012 . Earthscan . 9781849770590 . 6 January 2021.
  26. Book: Global Bioethanol: Evolution, Risks and Uncertainties . 2016 . Elsevier . 9780128031568 . 6 January 2021.
  27. Web site: 2020-03-23. Agenda World Sustainable Development Forum. 2020-12-04. en-US.
  28. Web site: Trindade. Sergio. 2020-02-06. Dr. Sergio C. Trindade, Former Assistant, Secretary General, United Nations for WSDF 2020. 2020-12-04. YouTube.
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  30. Web site: Sérgio Trindade, cientista do IPCC e parte de equipe que ganhou Nobel da Paz, morre aos 79 anos de Covid-19, diz agência. 8 May 2020. pt. Globo. 20 March 2020 .
  31. Web site: Sérgio Trindade, que ganhou Nobel da Paz com IPCC, morre com coronavírus em NY. pt. Uol. 20 March 2020 .
  32. Web site: Karol Gomes. Quem é o brasileiro Nobel da Paz morto por coronavírus. 9 May 2020. pt. Hypeness. 23 March 2020 .