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Montevideo, November 2nd 2024 - 12:33 UTC

Tag: Marina Silva

  • Monday, September 16th 2024 - 14:51 UTC

    Brazil gripped by “climate terrorism,” says Minister Silva

    There are people acting deliberately to create chaos in Brazil, Silva stressed

    South America's largest country is going through a wave of 21st Century “terrorism” which capitalizes on the high temperatures and low humidity to set large areas on fire damaging people's health, biodiversity and destroying forests, Climate Change Minister Marina Silva sqaid Sunday, Agencia Brasil reported. The official referred to this phenomenon as “climate terrorism.”

  • Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    G20 team approves 10 principles on bioeconomy

    “Our purpose today is to establish guiding principles that will serve as a basis for the development of the bioeconomy,” said Brazilian Climate Change Minister Marina Silva

    A G20 team conferring in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the November Summit bringing together the 20 largest economies in the world, agreed Wednesday on ten principles regarding bioeconomy developments globally, Agencia Brasil reported. The G20 Bioeconomy Initiative (GIB) reached a historic consensus.

  • Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Brazil: Lula announces creation of National Climate Authority

    The Climate Authority initiative had been discussed after Lula won the 2022 and environmental crises in Rio Grande do Sul and Amazonas have resurfaced it.

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Tuesday that he intended to create a National Climate Authority, Agencia Brasil reported. The new agency's mission would be to deal with extreme natural phenomena. Lula made these remarks in Manaus before dozens of environmental experts, as 61 of the 62 municipalities in the State of Amazonas face an emergency due to the drought.

  • Monday, August 26th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Arson suspected: Lula holds emergency meeting to address unusual number of fires

    The unprecedented number of fires in São Paulo is believed to have been caused deliberately

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday held an emergency meeting with Environment Minister Marina Silva to discuss the crisis triggered by a large series of fires in the state of São Paulo and elsewhere believed to be the result of arson. Two suspects were arrested this weekend.

  • Wednesday, July 17th 2024 - 07:45 UTC

    Brazil has 96% of Pantanal fires under control

    “We have to keep our teams moving,” Silva insisted

    Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said Tuesday that at least 96% of the fires in the Pantanal, Pantanal, a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area and the world's largest flooded grasslands, had been put out or were under control, Agencia Brasil reported. She made the announcement alongside fellow Ministers Simone Tebet (Budget and Planning) and Waldez Góes (Integration and Regional Development) in Corumbá, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul.

  • Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    No price tag should be placed on nature's services to mankind, Brazilian minister tells WEF

    “Value” is “beyond what we can price,” Silva argued

    According to Brazil's Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, there should be no pricing services provided by nature given their value to the planet and to human beings. She made those remarks this week during her appearance at one of the panels at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, December 13th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Stricter measures against fossil fuels called for at COP28

    Silva was touched by the confirmation of her native Amazon region to host COP30 in 2025

    The Brazilian delegation attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai this week called for stronger measures against the proliferation of fossil fuels, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 09:59 UTC

    Denmark to donate over US$ 22 million to Amazon Fund?

    Minister Franco issued a joint statement with the Danish government

    Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva Wednesday said Denmark might donate R$ 110 million (US$ 22.4 million) to the Amazon Fund between 2024 and 2026, in exchange for which the South American country should pledge to fight deforestation, Agência Brasil reported.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    Amazon deforestation drops 33.6% in first semester of 2023

    “Deforestation was increasing exponentially but now there is a steady downward trend in deforestation in the Amazon,” Minister Silva said

    Brazil's Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (Deter), of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), reported Thursday that deforestation in the Amazon in the first semester of 2023 had decreased by 33.6 % year on year and 41 % in the last 12 months.

  • Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 08:00 UTC

    UK and Brazil sign launching of the Partnership for Green and Inclusive Growth

    Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mr. Mauro Vieira

    Brazil and UK signed this week a Joint Declaration launching the Partnership on Green and Inclusive Growth on the occasion of the official visit to Brazil of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr James Cleverly.

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