Braskem
Renato T. Goebel holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Escola de Engenharia Maua (EEM), postgraduate in Administration at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil and an MBA from Marshall School of Business – USC in USA together with Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China. He worked in several multinational companies such as Embraer, Klabin and Votorantim group. Started his carrier in Brazil in the procurement and supply chain area, moving to China on 2007 to open Votorantim International’s office in Shanghai. He joined Braskem in 2016 as Asia Commercial Manager for the Chemical business unit, based in Singapore. Under his leadership, Asia market relevance and importance grew inside Braskem and currently is looking for opportunities through strategic projects to strengthen the company’s presence in Asia. He is Braskem´s head of Asia Market for Chemicals since May 2018 and supporting the Feedstock and Chemicals Recycle teams since 2020.
problems having to do with solar engineering or battery capacity that are going to be the thing we need to solve or even carbon sequestration to make this problem solvable. yeah, i mean, i think it s a tough thing. the biggest problem that we have right now is that we have a breakdown in the market system. i m ordinarily quite a big believer in the market because the market is just the sum of individuals decisions. but when there s a breakdown in the information mechanism, the market, that s where things go awry. so because there s no price on carbon emissions, it makes things that are carbon producing very rewarding. because the true price is not being paid. so if you re a petrochemical engineer, you can earn a huge amount of money but you really shouldn t be earning that huge amount of money anyway, it s not the market mechanism is broken. it s a classic economics problem. tragedy of the commons. the atmosphere that we all have that yeah.
problem solvable. yeah, i mean, i think it s a tough thing. the biggest problem that we have right now is that we have a breakdown in the market system. i m ordinarily quite a big believer in the market because the market is just the sum of individuals decisions. but when there s a breakdown in the information mechanism, the market, that s where things go awry. so because there s no price on carbon emissions, it makes things that are carbon producing very rewarding. because the true price is not being paid. so if you re a petrochemical engineer, you can earn a huge amount of money but you really shouldn t be earning that huge amount of money anyway, it s not the market mechanism is broken. it s a classic economics problem. tragedy of the commons. the atmosphere that we all have that yeah. you see this in international fishing stocks where there s