Brazil Institute Publication: “Emerging Powers: India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) and the Future of South-South Cooperation”

Due to the current trends of political and economic restructuring, South-South cooperation is expected to play an increasingly important role in the post-recession world. India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) established a dialogue forum to increase multilateral collaboration on a number of issues, especially those relating to development.
Based on a half-day conference on IBSA, the [...]

Lula calls on leaders to attend climate talks

Ed Crooks in London and Fiona Harvey-Financial Times, 11/05/09
Brazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the Financial Times he would speak to Barack Obama, US president, next week to urge him [...]

What do the Olympics mean for Rio’s environment?

David Cleary-The Miami Herald, 11/09/09
Naturally we in the Cidade Maravilhosa are delighted to have beaten out the Windy City and snatched the 2016 Olympics from under the nose of the not-quite-glamorous-enough first couple of the United States: even Obama can’t compete with Copacabana when it comes to wowing Olympic committees.
But now that the cheering has [...]

Brazil’s Olympic Run-Up

Oxford Analytica-Forbes, 11/09/09
Preparations for hosting the World Cup and 2016 Games will face municipal and bureaucratic challenges.
Brazil has long been a candidate to host the World Cup, last held there in 1950, as well as the Olympic Games, never before held in South America.
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Brazil’s Real Rises to Two-Week High on G-20 Stimulus Pledge

Camila Fontana-Bloomberg, 11/09/09
Brazil’s real rose to the highest level in two weeks against the dollar after stocks advanced and the Group of 20 nations remained silent on the U.S. currency’s decline this year and agreed to maintain stimulus measures.
The real gained 0.8 percent to 1.7058 per dollar at 8:53 a.m. in New York, the strongest [...]

Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost

Robert Walzer-The New York Times, 11/09/09
Early this decade, a drought in Brazil that cut water to the country’s hydroelectric dams prompted severe energy shortages. The crisis, which ravaged the country’s economy and led to electricity rationing, underscored Brazil’s pressing need to diversify away from water power.
One result of that introspection will climax on Dec. 14, [...]

Interview transcript: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Financial Times, 11/08/09
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and Jonathan Wheatley, Brazil correspondent, interviewed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in London on November 4.
Financial Times: Mr. President, tell me, how is it that Brazil has come out of this global financial and economic crisis so quickly?
President Lula: Well, first of all, I believe [...]