Environment

Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:41 UTC
Lula urges developed countries to up their climate contributions

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva insisted Tuesday that G20 developed countries should bring forward by up to ten years the climate neutrality targets currently set for 2050, Agencia Brasil reported. He made those remarks during his appearance at the Group's Summit in Rio de Janeiro. “To the developed members of the G20, I propose that you bring forward your climate neutrality targets from 2050 to 2040 or even 2045,” Lula stressed during a panel on sustainable development and energy transition.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 21:15 UTC
Paraguayan President says he is okay after Monday's hospitalization

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Tuesday shared a video message on social media saying he had fully recovered from Monday's health crisis that had him hospitalized while attending the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:47 UTC
US to release aid package for Brazilian Amazon

The United States offered an aid package for environmental actions in the Brazilian Amazon to address climate change, it was announced Monday during President Joseph Biden's visit to Manaus as part of his journey to the country for the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported. The first trip by a sitting US president to the region marked celebrations of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:46 UTC
Global warming and the burning issue of money

By Gwynne Dyer - It's hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petro-state of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval center that's worth a day or two, but offshore the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century's worth of old and new oil wells.
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Monday, November 18th 2024 - 21:59 UTC
Argentina becomes newest founding member of Lula's alliance against hunger

Javier Milei's Argentina became after last-minute negotiations the 82nd country to join the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, Brazil's initiative launched during the two-day G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With Buenos Aires' decision, no G20 country stayed out of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's partnership which is also made up of the African Union and the European Union, in addition to 9 financial institutions, 24 international organizations, and 31 philanthropic and non-governmental entities, totaling 148 founding members.
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Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:30 UTC
La Niña threatens this year's soybean crop in Paraguay

Paraguayan soybean producers warned this weekend that the La Niña weather phenomenon may affect this year's crop while the 2023/24 harvest is expected to reach a record in tons produced and exported, it was reported in Asunción.
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Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:27 UTC
Brazil submits climate plan for approaching years

Brazil's delegation before the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Friday pledged to abide by the new carbon reduction target set at the gathering, Agencia Brasil reported. South America's largest country was the second nation to submit a climate plan for the third generation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which defines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to be achieved by 2035.
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Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 18:23 UTC
Brazilian Climate Change Minister says Milei's decision goes against the world's efforts

Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva said Thursday that Argentina pulling its delegation from the Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was “a process that goes against the demands that the world is making.” In her view, however, President Javier Milei's decision will not interfere with the ongoing negotiations to have the most advanced countries further finance the adaptation of the less developed ones to the environmental agreements, Agencia Brasil reported.
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Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 13:46 UTC
Falklands, Sea Lion oil development area EIS public consultation considered

Following the public consultation for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Sea Lion Field Northern Development Area, Phase 1 and 2, submitted by Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Limited, the Executive Council (ExCo) considered the representations made, responses, and further information at an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday, November 7.
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Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 12:23 UTC
Macron adding Buenos Aires and Santiago to G20 South American tour

French President Emmanuel Macron will be making state visits to Argentina and Chile as part of his South American tour to attend the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it was confirmed in diplomatic circles. Macron will first get together with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei to discuss climate change and other bilateral issues between Nov. 16 and 17. Then, he will head for Brazil's gathering of world leaders on Nov. 18 and 19. And then he will travel to Santiago for talks with Gabriel Boric Font.
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