A total of 7.2 million heads of cattle were slaughtered in Brazil in the third quarter, 4.6% more than in the second quarter. The data were supplied by the Brazilian Statistics Institute.
Author: Agência Brasil
The statement was made by the president of the Brazilian Central Bank, Henrique Meirelles. According to him, the country’s economy will grow next year anchored mainly on rising employment and credit.
The Brazilian Chief of Staff, Dilma Roussef, said that developed countries want to split the contributions to the fund for fighting global warming into near-equal parts.
Brazil generated 246,695 formal job positions, the highest ever for the month. In the year to date, 1,410,348 positions were created.
The National Confederation of Industries and Apex are going to set up an office in Brussels to monitor and act against non-tariff barriers, imposed by the EU, affecting Brazilian exports.
In December, up until the 11th, the sum of dollar inflow and outflow in Brazil was positive by US$ 884 million, as announced today by the Central Bank.
The president of COP-15, Connie Hedegaard, stepped down after being accused of favouring wealthy countries in the negotiations. She will be replaced by the Danish prime-minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
The Brazilian National Treasury raised US$ 525 million through sales of bonds abroad. The papers were sold with the lowest interest rate in history.
The information was culled from the Brazilian Statistics Institute’s Monthly Trade Survey, disclosed today. There was growth of 1.4% from September to October and of 8.4% compared with October 2008.
Representatives of 192 countries race against the clock to close a deal on climate in Copenhagen. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has already left Brazil headed for the meeting.
The heads of delegations of countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa should have a common strategy to force countries to adopt daring measures against global warming.
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that the country is in a comfortable position after the population started to increase its consumption, in December 2008.
Petrobras Biofuel has fully mastered the technology for producing biodiesel from castor seeds. It is made with 30% castor oil and 70% sunflower oil.
From 2005 to 2008, roughly 56 million people aged 10 or over had access to the internet. The survey was disclosed today by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics.
