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Thursday, July 12th, 2007Recently Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) kindly shared with me the results for Brazil of this year’s edition of their World Environment Review poll. The 2007 edition polled 14 countries (Brazil was the only Latin American nation) using GMI’s online data collection platform and global consumer panels. GMI says that the survey has a representative […]
A MERCOSUR Car Run on Biogas and Electricity?
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007I’ve been holding this one back since I wrote it soon after the car was shown at a rural producers’ expo in southern Brazil in February. I thought it’d make a good “filler” whenever LAC health/environment got slow. But that day never seems to come, so I’ve decided to release it from the Temas backlog […]
New Sections Added to the Reading List
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Yeah, yeah, I know I'm running behind in adding the promised sections to the Temas Recommended Reading List, but I'm getting there, slowly but surely! Recently added have been: Mining Transport Urban Environment Wastes I remain interested in possibly adding a section on Environmental Education, but as I confessed before, it […]
PAC’ing Brazil II: Regulatory Agencies
Friday, March 2nd, 2007In Part I, I provided an overview of what the Program for Accelerated Growth (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento – PAC) proposed by President Lula is and why it matters to the issues I discuss in The Temas Blog. I also discussed its most direct impact on environment policy, the proposed changes in environmental licensing. […]
MERCOSUR Agrees to Cooperate on Biofuels
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Another one from the backlog queue. First tapped out some notes on this back in December! Only now remembered to dig it out (can I somehow blame it on the holidays?), because of the piece I just posted about the IDB and ethanol. Sorry for the delay. In mid-December the top policymaking body of the […]