ABSTRACT
Different drivers, associated with strategic, economic, social and environmental positive impacts, are fostering bioenergy development in both industrialized and developing countries. In the particular context of Latin America and Southern Africa, some of these drivers are even more relevant, making relatively straightforward to identify the reasons behind the interest to foster the development of sustainable sugarcane bioenergy schemes. To explore systematically the need of and opportunity for putting forward the programs for sustainable sugarcane bioenergy production and use in Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern Africa, it is worth to examine this question from a comprehensive point of view. With this regard, a relevant group of scholars and experts interested in judiciously recognizing and promoting sustainability in bioenergy, provided an interesting and useful framework for "evaluation on the basis of which more ethical production of current biofuels and the emerging biofuels production systems can be established".
