Vale, BNDES, Funcef and Petros will establish a US$ 344 million fund. The aim is to recover 450,000 hectares in the Amazon. Companies seek partners to speed up the project and Arabs are interested.
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The fourth edition of Certified Brazil fair in São Paulo begins today, bringing together environmentally correct and socially fair producers and products. The fair may be visited until Friday.
The country is the 19th most attractive in Ernst & Young’s ranking for investment in energy power generation from renewable sources such as wind and the sun. Brazil will grow above the global average.
The Arab country is going to host the next World Urban Forum, of the UN, in 2012. The last edition took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
The 5th edition of the World Urban Forum, promoted by the UN-Habitat, in Rio de Janeiro, brings over 130 international exhibitors, among them Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
The state-owned company will start using methane gas extracted from Latin America’s largest landfill as fuel at the Duque de Caxias Refinery, in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made an assessment of the Climate Conference this Monday. He stated that the meeting managed to solve part of the problem, but criticized the US’ stance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funds from rich nations should be used for reducing pollutant gas emissions in large developing nations, such as Brazil. The statement was made by the secretary general of COP-15, Yvo de Boer.
Prize for female entrepreneurs has 10 finalists. The winners will be known in April 2010.
