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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007A Sign of the Times? On Valentine’s Day in Brasilia a large group of Federal Deputies, with top officials from the Environment Ministry (including Minister Marina Silva), the President of the Chamber of Deputies Arlindo Chinaglia [Workers’ Party (PT) – São Paulo (SP)], and representatives of several key environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by their side, […]
Should Brazil Get More Credit for Climate Change Steps Already Taken?
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007This one has been sitting in the backlog queue since November, demanding to be finished and released. Recent comments by Environment Minister Silva gave me a new reason to do so and a “hook” to hang it on besides! Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in Paris earlier this month its […]
UNEP Honors Brazil’s Environment Minister as “Earth Champion”
Friday, February 2nd, 2007The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) just announced its seven “Earth Champions” to honor in 2007, just ahead of its Governing Council (GC) meeting Nairobi. While I am sure most blogs and news reports will focus on Al Gore and/or the International Olympic Committee (IOC), this is The Temas Blog, so we’ll spotlight the Latin […]
Brasil estimula melhor aproveitamento do lixo em aterros sanitários
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Synopsis in English: The Environment and Cities Ministries have jointly set up a system to help Brazil’s 30 most populous cities develop projects involving their waste disposal systems that can qualify for “clean development mechanism” (CDM) status under the Kyoto Protocol. Most involve capture and use of biogas. Technical studies will be funded using a […]