Tag: Amazon

• Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Norway pays Brazil US$ 70m for deforestation reduction in the Amazon in 2017

  

  Norway will pay Brazil US$ 70 million for reducing deforestation in the Amazon in 2017 but is concerned over a more recent surge in the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest, according to a Norwegian government statement.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Automation, rust belts, and the angry and unhappy US electorate

  

  Barack Obama said of the U.S. mid-term elections that “the character of our country is on the ballot,” and the outcome proved him right. The United States is a psychological basket case, more deeply and angrily divided than at any time since the Vietnam War.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Amazon's Bezos becomes leading philanthropist: US$ 2 billion for open pre-schools and homeless families

  

  Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has said he is giving US$2 billion to start a fund that will open pre-schools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to non-profit groups which help homeless families.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Boris Johnson, first foreign secretary to visit Peru in fifty years

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spent the first of his five-day visit to Latin America in Peru on Saturday 19 May. In the first visit of a British Foreign Secretary to Peru in over 50 years, Mr. Johnson joined Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and other high level Peruvian officials on a visit to Iquitos, located in the Amazon.

• Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

  Milestone Colombian ruling orders the government urgent protection of Amazon rainforest

  

  Colombia’s highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic moment that should help conserve forests and counter climate change.

• Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:28 UTC

  UK to tax multinationals that siphon profits into low-tax havens

  

  Britain plans to introduce a tax to target multinationals such as Google and Amazon accused of using complex accounting schemes to cut their payments on earnings in the country.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 05:41 UTC

  “Sustainability party” is born in Brazil headed by tireless fighter for Amazon rainforest protection

  

  Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year’s presidential elections. The new party is called “Sustainability Network.” It was launched in Brasilia at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:50 UTC

  Venezuela investigating alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon

  

  Venezuela announced it is investigating an alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, after a tribal group told the government that a village of 80 natives was attacked in July from a helicopter.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 06:46 UTC

  Desforestation in Brazil doubles, in anticipation of an amnesty for illegal logging

  

  Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than doubled last month as farmers become more confident they’ll be granted amnesty for illegal logging.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 04:15 UTC

  Brazil gives definitive approval to world’s third largest hydroelectric dam project

  

  Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive approval Wednesday for construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, a controversial 17 billion US dollars project in the Amazon that has drawn criticism from native Indians and conservationists.