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Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
Conservation, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 18th, 2010,
A new report by the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative discloses how global business is destroying the one of the world’s most valuable resources: its rainforests. A UK government backed project, Forest Footprint Disclosure’s aim is to inform investors and the public about how organizations contribute to deforestation.
The results are not good: the beef, soy, palm [...]
Tags: BBC, Brazil, Brazilian, business, companies, food, Forest Footprint Disclosure, investor, multinational, rainforest
Climate change, Conservation, Politics, Feb 10th, 2010,
Malaysian palm oil lobbyists have apparently succeeded in keeping – and even increasing – the amount of biodiesel sourced from palm oil used in European cars and power plants. In an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the European Commission’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) requires 10% of fuels in the EU to come from renewable [...]
Tags: biodiesel, biofuel, Brazil, European, greenhouse gas, Independent, Indonesia, Malaysia, palm, palm oil, rainforest, Renewable Energy Directive, sugar cane
Climate change, Conservation, Sustainable lifestyle, Feb 4th, 2010,
To the disappointment of environmental and indigenous rights groups, the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest has been green-lighted by the Brazilian environmental ministry. The Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River will be the world’s third largest project of its kind. The hydroelectric dam is part of a [...]
Tags: amazon, Belo Monte, Brazil, Brazilian, construction, dam, environmental, government, Guardian, hydroelectric, indigenous, project, rainforest, river, Xingu
Climate change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 28th, 2010,
The heaviest rains in 15 years have caused flooding in Peru, including the site of the ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. The floods, as stated by Australia’s Herald Sun, stranded some 1,500 tourists, many of whom had to be airlifted. Among the stranded were significant numbers of tourists from Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea [...]
Tags: australia, Brazil, China, flooding, floods, Machu Picchu, Peru, Reuters, stranded, tourists
Climate change, Politics, Jan 14th, 2010,
The major developing nations of China, India, Brazil and South Africa will meet on January 24th in New Delhi to hash out a common position on emission reductions and climate aid. It is believed that once such an agreement is reached the block of powerful developing countries will then attempt to convince other nations to [...]
Tags: Bolivia, Brazil, China, climate change, copenhagen, countries, developing, Evo Morales, Guardian, India, nations, New Delhi, South Africa
Videos & Documentaries, Jan 2nd, 2010,
According to a BBC News report around 50 people have died in mudslides brought on by heavy rains in and around the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Mudslides frequently threaten densely populated ‘favelas’ or shantytowns, which are often built on hillsides in the Rio region. But it is not only the poor residents of [...]
Tags: Brazil, deadly, favela, mudslides, Rio de Janeiro
Conservation, Dec 29th, 2009,
It sounds like something out of the American Wild West: gunfights, cattle ranching, mining, farming and frontier spirit in a dangerous, rugged wilderness. But it’s happening now and has been for many years in Brazil’s Amazon basin – one of the Earth’s most precious natural resources. The violent situation in this remote, semi-charted part of [...]
Tags: amazon, Brazil, deforestation, law, natural, new law, resources
Pollution, Recycling, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 11th, 2009,
Many of Brazil’s ultra-poor survive by recycling in the cities or farming in the Amazon in underground economies that both harm and help local and global ecology. A similar dichotomy is reflected in Brazil’s legitimate energy and farming markets.
‘If the desecration of the rainforest is Brazil’s carbon footprint, it is ethanol and hydro that ensure [...]
Tags: Brazil, CNN, farming, ITN, rainforest, Recycling
Health, Politics, Oct 7th, 2009,
JBS-Friboi, the leading meat exporter in Brazil, has pledged to stop purchasing meat from cattle raised in the Amazon. In order to meet the increasing demand of beef, many companies have been clearing Amazon forests to make way for grazing land for cattle. The company promises it will no longer patronize farmers who use slave [...]
Tags: amazon, amazon rainforest, Brazil, meat
Climate change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 21st, 2009,
“One groundbreaking new study in Science concluded that when this deforestation effect is taken into account, corn ethanol and soy biodiesel produce about twice the emissions of gasoline.” – Michael Grunwald, Time
I recently wrote an article about Indonesia’s bad biofuel industry, which is based on palm oil, resulting in mass deforestation via intense CO₂ producing [...]
Tags: biodiesel, biofuel, Brazil, corn, ethanol, Green, soy