:Sérgio Trindade

Trindade was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he graduated in chemistry at the Federal University.{{cite web|author=Juliana Dal Piva|title=Sem doenças preexistentes, brasileiro morto pelo coronavírus tinha rotina saudável, diz sobrinho|url=https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/sem-doen%C3%A7as-preexistentes-brasileiro-morto-224519663.html|access-date=9 May 2020|website=Yahoo}} 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".{{cite web|last=Martins|first=Marília|date=18 November 2007|title=Um brasileiro no Nobel da Paz 2007|url=https://www2.senado.leg.br/bdsf/bitstream/handle/id/413229/noticia.htm?sequence=1|language=pt|newspaper=O Globo}}{{Cite web|last=Trinidade|first=S.C. (Sergio C.)|date=1973|title=Studies on the magnetic demineralization of coal. - Full Catalog Record|url=http://library.mit.edu/F/ACXCH3UQYC6TTDFE213PEPGNAXJD8QLFX1YAQA2M1XTNR5UCUQ-05159?func=find-b&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&find_code=SYS&local_base=mit01pub&request=000667905|access-date=2020-12-04|website=library.mit.edu}}

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".{{cite book |last1=Newcombe |first1=Ken |last2=Bowman |first2=Kaye |last3=Christie |first3=Marion |last4=Pokris |first4=James |title=Report No.4 Energy for Development: the energy policy papers of the Lae Project |date=1980 |publisher=The Australian National University |url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/133299/1/MAB_04.pdf |access-date=7 January 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Kosaric |first1=N. |last2=Ng |first2=D.C.M. |last3=Russell |first3=I. |last4=Stewart |first4=G.S. |title=Advances in Applied Microbiology Volume 26 |chapter=Ethanol Production by Fermentation: An Alternative Liquid Fuel |date=1980 |volume=26 |pages=147–227 |doi=10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70334-4|isbn=9780120026265 }}

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.{{cite journal |last1=Ituassu |first1=Cristiana Trindade |last2=Oliveira |first2=Lucia B. |title=Governança ambiental e o legado de Sergio Trindade (Environmental governance and the legacy of Sergio Trindade) |journal=Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania |date=31 August 2020 |volume=25 |issue=81 |doi=10.12660/cgpc.v25n81.82072 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344059235 |access-date=7 January 2021|doi-access=free |hdl=1843/41501 |hdl-access=free }}

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).{{cite book |last1=Scheffran |first1=Jürgen |last2=Froese |first2=Rebecca |editor-last1=Brauch|editor-first1= H.|editor-last2= Oswald Spring |editor-first2=Ú.|editor-last3= Grin|editor-first3= J.|editor-last4= Scheffran |editor-first4=J. |title=Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace |date=2016|chapter= Enabling Environments for Sustainable Energy Transitions: The Diffusion of Technology, Innovation and Investment in Low-Carbon Societies |series=Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace|volume= 10 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |location=Switzerland |isbn=978-3-319-43884-9 |pages=721–756 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-43884-9_34 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43884-9_34 |language=en }}{{cite book

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|editor-first5= Laura Van Wie |editor-last5=Mcgrory

|author-last1=Trindade |author-first1=Sergio C.| chapter=Managing Technological Change in Support of the Climate Change Convention: Framework for Decision-Making |title=Methodological and Technological Issues In Technology Transfer |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=47–67|isbn=9780521804943

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He was a contributing author to Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2011).{{cite book |last1=Edenhofer |first1=Ottmar |last2=Pichs-Madruga |first2=Ramón |last3=Sokona |first3=Youba |last4=Seyboth |first4=Kristin |last5=Kadner |first5=Susanne |last6=Zwickel |first6=Timm |last7=Eickemeier |first7=Patrick |last8=Hansen |first8=Gerrit |last9=Schlömer |first9=Steffen |last10=Stechow |first10=Christoph von |last11=Matschoss |first11=Patrick |title=Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |date=21 Nov 2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139505598 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AjP9sVg01zoC&pg=PA865 |access-date=6 January 2021}}

Trindade served as director of science and technology for the St. Louis-based company International Fuel Technology, developing blended fuels.

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 {{ill|Petróleos Mexicanos|es}} (Pemex) and had not been signed into law as of May 2007.{{cite news |last1=Manda |first1=Alex |title=Mexico´s Ethanol Plan Meets Resistance |work=Banderas / Herald Mexico |date=May 2007 |url=http://www.banderasnews.com/0705/nz-ethanolplan.htm |access-date=6 January 2021}}{{cite book |editor-first=Marco Aurelio Dos Santos |editor-last= Bernardes |last1=Trindade |first1=Sergio C. |chapter=Nanotech Biofuels and Fuel Additives |title=Biofuel's Engineering Process Technology |date=1 August 2011 |pages=103–114 |doi=10.5772/16955 |isbn= 978-953-307-480-1 |s2cid= 27309907 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S3WfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR7 |access-date=6 January 2021}}

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.{{cite journal |last1=Mueller |first1=Charles |title=Reviewed Work: The Environment, Sustainable Development and Public Policies: Building Sustainability in Brazil by Clóvis Cavalcanti |journal=Environment and Development Economics |date=2002 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=386–389 |jstor=44379376 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44379376 |access-date=7 January 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Banta Jr. |first1=Rigoberto |title=Dr.Sergio Trindade, Nobel Co-laureate |url=http://tribune.cnumedia.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11074 |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Chonnam Tribune |date=16 January 2007}}

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).{{cite book |author=Worldwatch Institute |title=Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture |date=2012 |publisher=Earthscan |isbn=9781849770590 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjw-UP43ylsC&pg=PR15 |access-date=6 January 2021}}

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.{{cite book |title=Global Bioethanol: Evolution, Risks and Uncertainties |date=2016 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=9780128031568 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1nBBwAAQBAJ&dq=Sergio+Trindade++stakeholder+participation&pg=PA217 |access-date=6 January 2021}}

Trindade chaired his last session on sustainability and innovation at the second World Sustainable Development Forum in Durango, Mexico, in early March 2020.{{Cite web|date=2020-03-23|title=Agenda {{!}} World Sustainable Development Forum|url=https://worldsdf.org/durango-2020/agenda/|access-date=2020-12-04|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Trindade|first=Sergio|date=2020-02-06|title=Dr. Sergio C. Trindade, Former Assistant, Secretary General, United Nations for WSDF 2020|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RsPPGD69I&ab_channel=POPMovement|access-date=2020-12-04|website=YouTube}} 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.{{Citation|title=SP2 {{!}} Fapesp confirma que cientista Sérgio Trindade morreu devido à Covid-19 {{!}} Globoplay|url=https://globoplay.globo.com/v/8418280/|access-date=24 March 2020}}.{{cite web|title=Sérgio Trindade, cientista do IPCC e parte de equipe que ganhou Nobel da Paz, morre aos 79 anos de Covid-19, diz agência|url=https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2020/03/20/sergio-trindade-cientista-brasileiro-do-ipcc-e-ganhador-do-nobel-da-paz-morre-aos-79-anos-vitima-de-covid-19-diz-agencia.ghtml|access-date=8 May 2020|language=pt|newspaper=Globo|date=20 March 2020 }}{{cite web|title=Sérgio Trindade, que ganhou Nobel da Paz com IPCC, morre com coronavírus em NY|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioesaude/2020/03/sergio-trindade-brasileiro-nobel-da-paz-morre-vitima-do-coronavirus-em-ny.shtml|language=pt|newspaper=Uol|date=20 March 2020 }}{{cite web|author=Karol Gomes|title=Quem é o brasileiro Nobel da Paz morto por coronavírus|url=https://www.hypeness.com.br/2020/03/quem-e-o-brasileiro-nobel-da-paz-morto-por-coronavirus/|access-date=9 May 2020|language=pt|newspaper=Hypeness|date=23 March 2020 }} He is survived by his wife, Helena Trindade.

• {{cite book |author=Worldwatch Institute |title=Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture |date=2012 |publisher=Earthscan |isbn=9781849770590 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjw-UP43ylsC&pg=PR15 }}
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|editor-first2= Ogunlade |editor-last2=Davidson

|editor-first3= Jan-Willem |editor-last3=Martens

|editor-first4= Sascha Van |editor-last4=Rooijen

|editor-first5= Laura Van Wie |editor-last5=Mcgrory

|author-last1=Trindade |author-first1=Sergio C.| chapter=Managing Technological Change in Support of the Climate Change Convention: Framework for Decision-Making |title=Methodological and Technological Issues In Technology Transfer |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=47–67|isbn=9780521804943

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