Brazil’s airlines are doing very well. The numbers speak for themselves. The country´s domestic air traffic has nearly doubled since 2003 and expert forecast it will grow by up to 12% this year. Last year, passenger traffic grew 15%. A good example of the vitality of the Brazilian air travel market is the start-up Azul [...]
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Negotiators at Climate Talks Face Deep Set of Fault Lines
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, [...]
Brazil’s Sugar Rush
Photo: Reuters By Peter Day – BBC World Service Many people have been puzzled by “B” in BRICs; they have wondered why Brazil was included with Russia, India and China in the BRICs club of nations which the investment bank Goldman Sachs thinks will thrust their way to the global economic top table over the [...]
Climate talks remain alive, but so do many obstacles
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved — including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an [...]
Brazilian president says ‘gringos’ must pay to protect Amazon
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 [...]
The Amazon’s crusader, taking on the world
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 [...]
Lost there, felt here
Photo Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times By Thomas L. Friedman “One million dollars?” The question was asked with eyes wide and a voice of incredulity. The person asking was Antonio Waldez Góes da Silva, the governor of the Amazonian state of Amapá, which has the biggest national park in the world. I had just [...]