Strong digital expertise and industrial know-how make Finland a global leader in smart forestry. Finland Finland is one of the global superpowers in digitalization and forestry. The new, digital innovations are offering new solutions for the transformation of the industry – to increase the efficiency and safety as well as to offer real-time, accurate and…
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Lula, the president of Brazil, speaks to his minister of Indigenous peoples, Sonia Guajajara, at the Amazon summit. Photograph: Ricardo Stuckert/Brazilian presidency/AFP/Getty Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest Tom Phillips in Belém, Patrick Greenfield and agencies Amazon leaders have called on rich countries to help…
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AFP Demonstrators, including indigenous people from Amazon countries, marched in Belém on Tuesday as the summit kicked off By Katy Watson in Belém, Brazil & Christy Cooney in London BBC News The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. Delegates from the countries are meeting…
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Delay costs 4 times as much as before eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 9 August 2023– According to Instituto Escolhas, a Brazilian organization promoting sustainable development, South America’s largest country will have to invest US$ 47 billion to recover a large area of forests in the country’s six biomes, which would result in employment generation, food production, and…
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Now It’s Breaking the Environment Isayen Herrera // Sheyla UrdanetaPhotographs //Adriana Loureiro Fernandez Explosive gas flares from nearby oil wells spew an oily, flammable residue on the plants. The leaves burn, dry up and wither. There is no poison that can fight the oil,” he said. “When it falls, everything dries up.” Venezuela’s oil industry, which…
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But forgets to summon illegal Brazilian goldminers in Suriname eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, June 8th 2023– According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation fell 31% in the Legal Amazon, from January to May 2023, compared to the same period last year, Agencia Brasil reported. The data was released Wednesday and collected from the Deforestation Detection…
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Success for Lula in London eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, May 10th 2023– In a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in London, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced this Friday (5/6) that the United Kingdom will contribute to the Amazon Fund, currently financed by Norway , Germany and the United States. Later, via…
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Gold Provisional Measure eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 26 april 2023– Brasilia has finalized what has become known as the Gold Provisional Measure (MP) ending good faith and requiring electronic invoices for buying, selling, and transporting gold in the country, Brazilian media reported. The document has already been signed by Justice Minister Flávio Dino and will also be signed…
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Winners from China, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore Geneva, July 19, 2022PR/2022/892 Small and medium-sized enterprises from China, Japan, the Netherlands and Singapore are the first-ever winners of WIPO’s new Global Awards program, which recognizes exceptional enterprises and individuals using intellectual property (IP) to make a positive impact at home and abroad. In an awards ceremony held…
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