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.
Author: Agência Brasil
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.
The first draft of an agreement at the World Climate Conference, in Copenhagen, preserves commitments made by countries in the Kyoto Protocol, but should also include targets for the United States.
Finance minister Guido Mantega said the discrepancy between growth of the GDP and the forecast by the economic team is due to a change in methodology used by the IBGE, which calculates the figure.
The country’s GDP increased over the previous quarter’s and totalled US$ 452 billion, according to Brazilian Statistics Institute data. The best performance was the industry’s, whose output grew 2.9%.
Finance minister Guido Mantega announced today the addition of US$ 45 billion to Brazilian Development Bank financing lines, plus fiscal incentives to some sectors and extended stimulus programs.
Brasília – The Brazilian minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, said today (9th) that the growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter, to be announced tomorrow, should be 2%. Mantega stated that in the 12 month period ended in September, the growth rate is 8%. He added that GDP growth in
The statement was made today by the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, in an event on the sidelines of the UN Climate Conference, in Copenhagen.
