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CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil to Recover Leadership Role with CO2 Limits

CLIMATE CHANGE: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 17 (IPS) - Brazil's decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet's climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Dilma Rousseff

BRAZIL: Deforestation Down 45 Percent

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jungle was reduced more than expected between August 2008 and July 2009 - 45 percent compared to the previous 12 months, the National Institute for Space Research ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Dilma Rousseff,  United Nations

BRAZIL: Green Beans to Go, Roast Coffee Grounded

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (IPS) - For over a century and a half, Brazil has led the world in green coffee bean production and exports, without ever achieving similar success with processed beans. Some of the internal and external ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  11 Nov 2009

LABOUR: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work

LABOUR: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 2 (IPS) - More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inבcio Lula da Silva, met last week ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

ECONOMY-SOUTH AMERICA: Chinese Competition Undermines Integration

ECONOMY-SOUTH AMERICA: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 23 (IPS) - Brazil's products are losing ground in the rest of South America, mainly because of the flood of low-cost Chinese goods a trend that is also exacerbating the region's dependence on ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

LATIN AMERICA: Poor Response to Global Call Against Poverty

LATIN AMERICA: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 19 (IPS) - The creative approach of using football matches, student gatherings, shows or events indirectly related to the issue of poverty enabled Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) activists to ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens

MIGRATION-BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 19 (IPS) - Brazil, a major source of migrants since the 1980s, is now working at recognising and supporting the rights of the three million Brazilians who are scattered among over 100 countries. A ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate

BRAZIL: Olympics in Rio – 'Happiness' Trumps Wealth and Technology

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 2 (IPS) - Brazil has "the happiest and most creative" people in the world, and deserved this opportunity, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in Copenhagen, celebrating Friday's election of Rio de ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: International Olympic Committee,  Santos, Ltd.,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Forbes Magazine,  Barack Obama

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: The Long Shadow of the Dictatorship

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 30 (IPS) - Those who died and "disappeared" during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship in Brazil represent a mere "one percent of the agenda" of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights (SEDH), but ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Henry Kissinger

HONDURAS: Brazil Ups the Ante

HONDURAS: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 28 (IPS) - Brazil's claim to a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council could be strengthened if its decision to provide protection for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in its embassy turns ...

From MARIO OSAVA, Inter Press Service,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  United Nations,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  European Union

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