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		<title>Brazilian Banks Assume Environmental Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Social Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[additionalities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco do Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bancos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversidade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bradesco]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cacique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caixa Econômica Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Minc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protocolo Verde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sustainable consumption]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian businesses depending on bank financing for their economic activities will have to prove from now on that they are committed to developing socio-environmental policies, such as those regarding respect for human and workers&#8217; rights, conservation of biodiversity, valuing the diversity of local cultures, reduction of poverty and income distribution inequality.  This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank: Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services Severely Undervalued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine/Coastal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco Mundial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach erosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversidad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Ocean Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coral bleaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coral reefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mangroves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine ecosystems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wastewater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the World Bank:
Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services Severely Undervalued

New World Bank Review Calls for Action to Protect the Marine Environment

Properly valuing coastal and marine ecosystem services is critical to sustainable development, according to the World Bank publication “Environment Matters 2008” launched today.
Titled: “Valuing Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services”, the review argues that while we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDB and Korea Partner on Green Growth / IDB y Corea apoyarán crecimiento verde</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/idb-and-korea-partner-on-green-growth-idb-y-corea-apoyaran-crecimiento-verde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/idb-and-korea-partner-on-green-growth-idb-y-corea-apoyaran-crecimiento-verde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crecimiento verde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficiencia energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energía renovable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financiamiento sostenible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kexim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tecnologias verdes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Korea and IDB strengthen partnership on Green Growth
During the 50th Annual Meeting of the IDB’s Board of Governors the IDB and the Korean government, one of the Bank’s 48 member-countries, will also sign a cooperation agreement on Green Growth to develop and promote the use of renewable energy, efficient energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paraná Looks at Generating Employment from Waste</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/parana-looks-at-generating-employment-from-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abatiá]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvorada do Sul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andirá]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arapongas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arapoti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assaí]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aterros consorciados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bandeirantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barra do Jacaré]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bela Vista do Paraíso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cafeara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambará]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambé]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlópolis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coleta seletiva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congoninhas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conselheiro Mairinck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cornélio Procópio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emprego]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guaraci]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jataizinho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joaquim Távora]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[São Sebastião da Amoreira]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[selective collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEMA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sertaneja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siqueira Campos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamarana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wenceslau Bráz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wish all states did this.
The Environment Secretariat (SEMA) of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná met on Tuesday and Wednesday (17-18 March) with the environment authorities of 70 municipalities in the North and North Pioneer regions of the state, and today and tomorrow will meet with municipal officials from the rest of the state.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Always Easy Exporting Ethanol</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/not-always-easy-exporting-ethanol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/not-always-easy-exporting-ethanol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alagoas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[álcool combustível]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auditoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biocombustiveis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecossistemas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indústrias sucroalcooleiras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inglaterra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pré-auditoria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=2937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To hear some biofuel critics tell it, ethanol from sugarcane is being produced in Brazil without regard to its environmental impacts, and certification requirements in export markets such as Europe do not influence such behavior.
Hearing of cases such as the one below gives me doubts about such charges.
The sugar and alcohol producers in the tiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Ecosystem Service Payments Save the Amazon?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/could-ecosystem-service-payments-save-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Forest Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cattle breeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desmatamento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecotourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecoturismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollination services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rainforests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Utrecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From WWF:
Amazon could prosper thanks to emission payments, be lost without
Global payments for ecological services rendered by the Amazon such as the carbon retaining in its forests could go a long way to preserving them, a new study has found.
Keeping the Amazon forests standing: a matter of values, carried by the Copernicus Institute of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFC: Financial Institutions Still Not Integrating Environment Issues Into the Investment Process</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/ifc-financial-institutions-still-not-integrating-environment-issues-into-the-investment-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Social Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambio climático]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Compact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mudanças climáticas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the International Finance Corporation (IFC):
New Report Urges Financial Industry to Integrate Sustainable Investing Practices
A new report by IFC, the United Nations Global Compact, and the Swiss government finds that although the financial industry understands the necessity of developing methodologies and tools that examine environmental issues in the investment process, it is still not standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade in Used Cars in the Americas: Good for the Environment?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/air-quality/trade-in-used-cars-in-the-americas-good-for-the-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aceites lubricantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brake fluid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comercio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Poder del Consumidor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ELVs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gases de efecto invernadero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lead-acid batteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motor vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrap tires]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[traffic safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[used cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vehicle emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vehicle safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vehículos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent working paper by two US economists looks at the environmental consequences of international trade in durable goods through data regarding trade in used cars between the United States and Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  [A tip of the hat to Rob over at Globalisation and the Environment for alerting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Made from Recycled Plastic</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/paper-made-from-recycled-plastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[board games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cédulas de dinheiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaning products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquetas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extruder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAPESP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexible films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food jars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garrafas de água]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garrafas PET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livros escolares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materials engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PET bottles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plástico reciclado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polypropylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potes de alimentos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reciclagem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycled plastic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[São Paulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sati Manrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabuleiros de jogos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFSCar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vitopel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Votorantim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water bottles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report from São Paulo&#8217;s Research Support Foundation (Fapesp), a synthetic &#8220;paper&#8221; made from discarded post-consumer plastics has been developed at Brazil&#8217;s Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and tested in a pilot plant of Vitopel, a manufacturer of flexible films with a factory in Votorantim, São Paulo.
Produced as a film, the material [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caixa Will Only Loan to Construction Using Certified Legal Wood / Caixa só financiará empreendimentos usuários de madeira legal</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/economics-the-environment/caixa-will-only-loan-to-construction-using-certified-legal-wood-caixa-so-financiara-empreendimentos-usuarios-de-madeira-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Forest Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadastro Técnico Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caixa Econômica Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certificação]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construção civil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desmatamento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documento de Origem Florestal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madeira legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilians have decided that if they are to ever reach their goal of wiping out illegal logging in the Amazon, they need to do more than more than just step up police raids, support sustainable wood use projects, create new parks, digitize monitoring, monitor biomass in realtime by satellite, and target key states.
The new [...]]]></description>
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