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Brazil's GHG emissions fall 39% since 2005, now 10% below 1990 levels
2013-06-06 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazils greenhouse-gas emissions dropped 39 percent between 2005 and 2010, largely due to a reduction in deforestation, reports an inventory released yesterday by the Brazilian government. More than three-quarters of the 1.25 billion ton reduction in carbon dioxide emissions came from a drop on forest loss in the Amazon rainforest and surrounding cerrado ecosystem. Deforestation in Brazil has fallen sharply since the first half of last decade when the government rolled out a plan to control Amazon...
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Brazil's Telebras positioned to profit from broadband cables
2013-05-28 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
State-run Internet provider to hold first investor call after two years of silence.
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Biofuels a boon for Brazil's rural poor, but obstacles remain elsewhere
2013-05-21 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Biofuels have long been hailed as one of the potential answers to climate change. Their environmental credentials are controversial, but a handful of countries are now looking at them from another angle entirely: they want to use biofuels to try to reduce poverty among rural smallholder farmers. Such efforts are in full force in Brazil, a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen...
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Brazil's CSN Sees First-Quarter Net Fall 82% to BRL16.3 Million
2013-05-16 13:54:11| Steel - Topix.net
Brazilian flat-steel maker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional , or CSN, late Wednesday reported a drop of 82% in its first-quarter net profit, due to the rise of its costs in the period.
Brazil's Gerdau posts first-quarter profit of 160 mln reais
2013-05-07 14:48:35| Steel - Topix.net
Gerdau SA , the largest steelmaker in the Americas, posted on Tuesday first-quarter net income of 160 million reais , according to a securities filing.
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