Ethanol-fuel efforts get boost in Brazil

October 2002

Colombia

Colombia loses stand-alone environment ministry

Faced with a deep budget deficit and heavy public debt, the two-month-old government of President Álvaro Uribe has fused the Environment Ministry and the Development ......

Venezuela

Small bird’s big appetite riles Venezuelan farmers

Rice and sorghum farmers in this west-central Venezuelan state rarely miss an early morning radio program on agriculture called Punto Agropecuario. These days they’re listening in ......

Costa Rica

Pacheco sends congress green amendments

First the government of Costa Rica declared military peace in 1948 by abolishing its army. Now, the administration of President Abel Pacheco has declared “peace ......

Brazil

For the most part, Brazil tire law succeeding

Industry is showing generally good compliance with a new Brazilian regulation requiring the recycling or destruction of discarded tires, officials here say. The measure’s first months ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Uribe fights coca with chemical and trees

Under U.S. pressure, new Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has stepped up aerial fumigation of coca crops and overhauled a crop-substitution program to root out the ......

Around the Region

Ethanol-fuel efforts get boost in Brazil

Germany plans to provide $31 million to help revive Brazil’s ethanol car program in exchange for CO2 emissions credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development ......

Centerpiece

Binational pressures build on the Colorado

In his 1949 essay “The Green Lagoons,” U.S. naturalist Aldo Leopold recalls a canoe trip two decades earlier through the Colorado River delta—then a teeming ......

Q&A

Expert sees eventual cross-border market for water

Stephen Mumme, a professor of political science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a long-time student of environmental management and policy on ......

Ethanol-fuel efforts get boost in Brazil

Germany plans to provide $31 million to help revive Brazil’s ethanol car program in exchange for CO2 emissions credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). At the UN Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg last month, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced the creation of a joint task force charged with working out the details of the agreement by early December. The German funds will subsidize the production of new ethanol-powered cars, making each of the 100,000 planned vehicles 1,000 Reais ($310) cheaper for buyers. The deal’s organizers, Brazil’s Science and Technology Ministry and Germany’s Environment Ministry, hope German industry will provide the money in exchange for emissions-credit certificates granted under the CDM, says Gylvan Meira... [Log in to read more]

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October 2002

Colombia

Colombia loses stand-alone environment ministry

Faced with a deep budget deficit and heavy public debt, the two-month-old government of President Álvaro Uribe has fused the Environment Ministry and the Development ......

Venezuela

Small bird’s big appetite riles Venezuelan farmers

Rice and sorghum farmers in this west-central Venezuelan state rarely miss an early morning radio program on agriculture called Punto Agropecuario. These days they’re listening in ......

Costa Rica

Pacheco sends congress green amendments

First the government of Costa Rica declared military peace in 1948 by abolishing its army. Now, the administration of President Abel Pacheco has declared “peace ......

Brazil

For the most part, Brazil tire law succeeding

Industry is showing generally good compliance with a new Brazilian regulation requiring the recycling or destruction of discarded tires, officials here say. The measure’s first months ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Uribe fights coca with chemical and trees

Under U.S. pressure, new Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has stepped up aerial fumigation of coca crops and overhauled a crop-substitution program to root out the ......

Around the Region

Ethanol-fuel efforts get boost in Brazil

Germany plans to provide $31 million to help revive Brazil’s ethanol car program in exchange for CO2 emissions credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development ......

Centerpiece

Binational pressures build on the Colorado

In his 1949 essay “The Green Lagoons,” U.S. naturalist Aldo Leopold recalls a canoe trip two decades earlier through the Colorado River delta—then a teeming ......

Q&A

Expert sees eventual cross-border market for water

Stephen Mumme, a professor of political science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a long-time student of environmental management and policy on ......