The Ministry of Tourism launched on Wednesday the Aquarela 2020 Plan, for promotion of Brazil abroad. Up to the end of the decade, the country hopes to attract 11.1 million visitors.
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.
São Paulo – A lorry offloading eucalyptus bark, coffee grounds, ashes and bird droppings, at the Pluma Visafértil factory, in the city of Mogi Mirim, in the interior of São Paulo, is a common scene. What elsewhere would become garbage, there gains value, as raw material. The company is one of the new projects in
São Paulo – Copercampos had been studying the possibility of producing organomineral fertilizer for ten years. But it was the fertilizer crisis that started the run for production of the new fertilizer. “With the fertilizer crisis, the price of phosphates rising very much, we sought an alternative, a cheaper source of phosphates for farmers,” said
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees was established in 1949. It provides humanitarian aid, education, professional training, healthcare, social assistance and microcredit.
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.
Foreign sales of the product totalled US$ 115 million last year. From January to November, exports generated US$ 1 billion, which represented reduction of 42%.
Book ‘Cuisine and Renal Therapy – Flavours for a Thousand and One Nights’ adapts Arab recipes to the diet of patients with chronic renal disease. It was written by doctors, nutritionists and chefs.
The current crop should be 10% greater than the previous one, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Brazil answers to 20% of global production of the commodity.
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.
