The vulnerability of renewable energy to climate change in Brazil Lucena, Andre Frossard Pereira de; Szklo, Alexandre Salem; Schaeffer, Roberto; Souza, Raquel Rodrigues de; Borba, Bruno Soares Moreira Cesar; Costa, Isabella Vaz Leal da [Energy Planning Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco C, Sala 211, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao, CEP: 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)]; Junior, Amaro Olimpio Pereira; Cunha, Sergio Henrique Ferreira da [Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica - EPE, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)] 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; DIESEL FUELS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; WIND POWER; BRAZIL; BIOFUELS; CLIMATIC CHANGE; VULNERABILITY; GREENHOUSE GASES; EMISSION; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES Energy supply in Brazil relies heavily on renewable energy source. The production of energy from renewable sources, however, greatly depends on climatic conditions, which may be impacted in the future due to global climate change (GCC). This paper analyzes the vulnerabilities of renewable energy production in Brazil for the cases of hydropower generation and liquid biofuels production, given a set of long-term climate projections for the A2 and B2 IPCC emission scenarios. The most important result found in this study is the increasing energy vulnerability of the poorest regions of Brazil to GCC. Both biofuels production (particularly biodiesel) and electricity generation (particularly hydropower) may negatively suffer from changes in the climate of those regions. Other renewable energy sources - such as wind power generation - may also be vulnerable, raising the need for further research. However, the results found are fundamentally dependent on the climate projections which, in turn, are still highly uncertain with respect to the future evolution of greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and GCC. Therefore, in such long-term scenario analyses, the trends and directions derived are the ones to be emphasized rather than the precise results one arrives. (author) Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.10.029 United Kingdom 2009-03-15 English Journal Article Journal Name: Energy Policy; Journal Volume: 37; Journal Issue: 3; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved Medium: X; Size: page(s) 879-889 https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENPOL.2008.10.029 [] 3 37 Journal ID: ISSN 0301-4215; ENPYAC; TRN: GB09V0589 GB 2010-01-01 21150880