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 [...]
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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 [...]
United States and Brazil sign agreement on biofuels
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) announced today that they have signed an agreement that could accelerate the development and international commercialization of biofuels. The announcement was made at the International Biofuels Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The NREL/Petrobras agreement will help achieve the goals of [...]