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Honda begins construction of the first wind farm by an automaker in Brazil

2013-10-30 14:30:10| Green Car Congress

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Brazil to Minimize Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture

2013-10-30 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

BRAZIL- Agriculture Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have signed a joint statement to minimize the negative effects of climate change on security food.

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Brazil: Belo Monte dam suspended

2013-10-30 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Construction on Belo Monte, Brazil's largest dam, was again halted by a federal court due to concerns over its license, reports Amazon Watch, an NGO that is mobilizing opposition to the project. "Last week the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1) accepted a request made by public prosecutors of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) and suspended the installation license (LI- Licença de Instalaço) which had authorized the start of construction sites of the Belo Monte Hydroelelctric Dam...

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FedEx adds electric vehicles in Brazil

2013-10-29 23:37:27| Air Courier - Topix.net

Memphis-based FedEx Corp. announced it will add the first all-electric vehicles to is local fleet in Brazil at the beginning of next year.

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Illegal logging remains rampant in Brazil

2013-10-23 20:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Illegal logging remains pervasive in the Brazilian state of Pará, finds an assessment released Monday by Imazon. Analyzing satellite data and records from Pará's environmental agency Sema, the Brazil-based NGO found that 78 percent of logging documented via satellite between August 2011 and July 2012 was illegal. Some 122,337 hectares of rainforest was logged during the period, a 151 percent rise over a year earlier, when 48,802 ha were illegally harvested. Illegal logging far outpaced legal...

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