Like a debutante out for the first time Latin America finds itself surrounded by many suitors. Recently China’s Hu Jintao and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev have been paying court to Latin America with the US as ever a constant presence.
With so many countries vying for its commodities and friendship Latin America is now one of the [...]
During his presidency Lula has driven Latin America’s biggest economy from the edge of default and transformed the nation of 193 million into an emerging financial power.
In 2009 the Brazilian real reached 33%, which was the biggest net gain among the world’s 16 most actively traded currencies. In March annual inflation dropped from 14.5% when [...]
The state of Tocantins has the advantage of having the highest rate of growth in Brazil, which a company representative called to the attention of Eucatex when he came to look over the potential and productive conditions of the region.
Eucatex is the leading manufacturer of products for the construction industry and owns one of the [...]
Brazil has been attracting a lot of attention lately from major multinationals who want to ride the wave of Brazil’s economic boom that has been fuelled by oil and agriculture. They are attracted to Brazil’s stable, growing, middle-class and increasingly IT-literate workforce.
Still it did come as a surprise when Goldman Sachs introduced Brazil into the [...]
From 1983 up until a few years ago the Bhutanese bragged about having over 72.5% of its land under forest cover. It wasn’t until 2005 that the forestry department’s updated figure showed that figure to have suddenly dropped to 64.35% and in the process causing a few eyebrows to rise during their annual forestry conference.
The [...]
The Cannes Film Festival takes place this month and that is where a company in Ecuador is planning to take its innovative forest carbon financing initiative in the hope of showcasing the project to prospective investors. It might just be me but surely a film festival is an odd place to present a forest carbon [...]
A picture of economic growth and optimism was painted by three related working papers released by the University of Oregon’s Ecosystem Workforce Programme of the emerging field of forest and watershed restoration.
According to one of the papers as traditional forestry services such as tree planting are declining restoration work is on the up. The same [...]
In Jakarta activists marked Earth Day by urging the government to start taking the environment seriously, while those in Bali declared it Coral Day.
“Indonesia has too much to carry on its shoulders now, economic and social burdens, ecological burdens, disasters everywhere, too much debt and lots of environmental issues,” Teguh Surya, head of advocacy at [...]
A breakthrough bipartisan support has been announced by Democratic Senators Mark Begich and Jean Shaheen and Republican Senators Mike Crapo and Lisa Murkowski for a little utilized form of renewable energy.
This improbable Senate alliance will have major implications for greenhouse gas reductions in the American Renewable Biomass Heating Act. Brighter Energy reports that their legislation [...]
An attack on capitalism’s debt to global warming and a UN envoy being booed were the opening acts to Bolivian President Evo Morales’ ‘people’s conference’ on climate change last Tuesday.
Those scheduled to take part in the three day summit were environmental activists, indigenous leaders and Hollywood celebrities. The conference was organised to focus on the [...]
Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. An event which is even now being celebrated around the world and has even caught the attention of the American President whose Earth Day message is a clear challenge to Americans to take up the banner on behalf of the environment.
“I want you to take action – [...]
This year Russia is putting its focus on advancing its investment climate within its wood industry. This push as has been precipitated by the sharp fall in export demand for timber that was a result of the global financial crisis.
During the first half of 2009 the production of solid wood panels in Russia dropped by [...]
Under the cover of darkness the first bomb hits with a thud. The air is peppered with soft thuds as five more land. Now the infantry use the water cannon and blasts water at the target but the bombs don’t explode, not yet. It will be weeks maybe a month before the results of this [...]
The auction for construction of what would be the world’s third largest hydroelectric project was delayed by a federal judge in Para State on Wednesday.
The decision to temporarily halt the bidding was applauded by director James Cameron but he warned that the fight is not over in what he refer’s to a ‘real life Avatar’ [...]
Over the coming for years the Xerox Corporation is expected to invest an additional $1 million in the second phase of its partnership with The Nature Conservancy. The aim of the scheme is to promote forest conservation and sustainable forest management around the world.
The partnership between Xerox and The Nature Conservancy was formed in October [...]
Investment in agribusiness can have many rewarding aspects. In Australia the agribusiness is a billion dollar export industry, which impacts on economic factors such as: regional employment, economic growth and trade relations.
For individuals paying the highest marginal tax rate it is particularly valuable as it is recognised as a tax effective investment. The investor is [...]
A Barclays Capital analyst has reported that domestic deals to convert barren land into forests and to maintain them could potentially supply 60% of available offsets in any US cap-and-trade plan on greenhouse gas emissions.
Trevor Sikorski, a London based director of carbon markets at Barclays said in a research note that the overall supply of [...]
A recently released UN survey reveals that while large scale planting programmes are being carried out in the US and Asia and helping to slow deforestation, farmers are still clearing trees to create farmland at an alarming rate.
The assistant director general for forestry, Eduardo Rojas said that the study of the last decade has shown [...]
Three Sustainable Forestry Funds have been launched recently that invest in tropical rainforests and plantations in Brazil, Costa Rica and Malaysia, as well as various other forest rich countries. These funds were announced by Oxigen, a forest management company and MSS Fund Management, an alternative asset manager, both of which are based in the UK.
The [...]
With the world cup coming up South Africa has been trying to clean up their image and lately have been giving strong signals that they are ready to join the low carbon economy. It may be cynical of me but I believe the move has less to do with the country’s lack of sustainable energy [...]
