Posts under ‘Brazil and the world’

The heads of state of Brazil, Rússia, India and China will meet again on April 16th, in Brasília, the Brazilian capital. They first met in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg last year to discuss the international financial crisis. The agenda for the April summit is still being discussed. The meeting comes as Brazil, Latin America’s [...]

Brazil´s well respected Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) has just published a study which concludes that:  “If Brazil maintains the same trend toward decreasing poverty and inequality as it has in the past five years, by 2016 these social indicators will resemble those found in developed countries. Extreme poverty could be eradicated for all [...]

The four members of BRIK: Brazil, Russia, India and China
By Schott´s Vocab – The New York Times
An oil-industry acronym for Brazil, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria and Kazakhstan – five countries predicted to make a significant mark on oil production in the 2010s.
Discussing the possible impact of an increase in oil supply, Liam Denning observed in The [...]

The Copenhagen opening ceremony on Monday as the climate change summit began
By Reuters
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – China led calls by developing nations for deeper emissions cuts from the United States, Japan and Europe at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, as a study showed that this decade will be the warmest on record.
The first decade of this century was [...]

Honduras former president Manuel Zelaya with members of Carter Center in the Brazil´s embassy, in Tegucigalpa
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER

aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com

Brazil, the United States and the Organization of American States deserve a gold medal each for their awful handling of Sunday’s presidential elections in Honduras.
Let’s examine how the main international players behaved in the crisis triggered by the June [...]

Countdown to Copenhagen, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
By TOM ZELLER Jr. – The New York Times
With the scientific consensus more or less settled that human activity — the burning of fossil fuels, torching of forests, and so forth — is contributing to a warmer and less hospitable planet, one might reasonably ask, why is [...]

Associated Press

Photograph: Fernando Bizerra Jr/EPA
Speaking before Amazon summit, Lula calls on industrialised countries to provide financial help to halt deforestation
Brazil’s president said today that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich western countries had caused much more environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s [...]

By Andrew Downie, from Time.com

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wave to journalists at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia
Eraldo Peres / AP

 
A swing through Latin America this week by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the Obama Administration and U.S. congressional leaders to signal their displeasure with the Iranian [...]

By Connection Consulting
After providing consulting for numerous business to start up in Brazil, we have learned that there are a few subjects related to bureaucracy and perceptions about Brazil that catch foreigners by surprise especially when they are planning to set up or already are in the process to open their business in the country.
Based [...]

Photo: Elza Fiúza – Agência Brasil
By Juliet Eilperin, from The Washington Post
When international climate negotiators convene next month in Copenhagen, Brazilian politician Marina Silva will serve as the conference’s unofficial philosopher-activist. A native Amazonian who grew up in a community of rubber-tappers, Silva worked with murdered Amazonian activist Chico Mendes, won the prestigious Goldman Environmental [...]