In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
Steel will remain the dominant material in the manufacture of cars even as environmental pressures lead to greater use of lightweight aluminum. But aluminum is more expensive than steel and prices are considered more volatile. What's more, steel producers have not been sitting on their hands. They are developing lighter, …
Brazil's ethanol fuel production will reach 64 billion litres in the year 2019, more than twice the amount currently produced, the Mines and Energy Minister Marcio Zimmerman said on September 20.
As part of its proposal to inspect manufacturing facilities in countries from where drugs are imported, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has started discussions with the ministry to send drug inspectors to those countries to verify quality parameters. The immediate trigger seems to be the recent cancellation of …
A United Nations panel will give clean energy project auditors three weeks to study a proposal to make them liable for over-issuing Kyoto carbon offsets, according to a webcast of a panel meeting on Thursday. An executive board meeting of the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) draws to a close …
NEW DELHI: India and Brazil are exploring the possibility of cooperation in production of ethanol and agricultural investment. It is felt that the joint efforts of the world's two largest sugarcane producers, India and Brazil, were crucial to making ethanol a global commodity and a sustainable, low-carbon energy alternative to …
A study on healthcare infrastructure by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and Hosmac, a healthcare consultant, has shockingly revealed that India does not even have a single hospital bed to cater to 1,000 people. India barely has 0.9 bed per 1,000 people. According to the …
PTI BOSTON WITH a net worth of $62 billion, Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani could be the richest man on earth in 2014, according to a forecast issued by the prestigious Forbes magazine.
Slips to 51st position in the global business competitiveness index. Even as emerging markets in Asia showed impressive gains in global business competitiveness in 2010, India slipped two notches to the 51st position over the previous year due to poor health, education and infrastructure facilities. Among the BRIC nations
Large-scale deforestation in the Amazon has declined by 47.5% over the past 12 months, according to a preliminary survey by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment using a low-resolution satellite. The figure is one of the largest declines since measurements began 20 years ago. If confirmed by a second set of …
Deforestation and forest fragmentation are known major causes of nonrandom extinction, but there is no information about their impact on the phylogenetic diversity of the remaining species assemblages. Using a large vegetation dataset from an old hyper-fragmented landscape in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest we assess whether the local extirpation of …
After months of speculation, Brazil and India have launched a WTO dispute against the EU and the Netherlands over the seizure of generic drugs in transit. The complainants requested dispute settlement consultations on 11 May, citing a raft of EU and Dutch regulations that allow customs officials to detain goods …
Just two days before trade sanctions were to be imposed in the cotton dispute, Brazil and the United States reached a compromise agreement, which may finally yield the subsidy reforms that Brasilia has been seeking from Washington for nearly a decade. The so-called
With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend its biofuels sector to include farmers like Lucas Scariot, who makes around $10,000 per year from selling grain. For the past three years, Scariot has sold soy beans at a premium over market prices to a …
India has valuable lessons to learn from Brazil's urban failures as much as from its innovations. A recent report, published by the United Nations Population Fund and the International Institute for Environment Development, concludes that Brazil's urban policies over the last four decades failed because they were too slow to …
Amore-than-a-centuryold Brazilian daily has become the latest in the long line of newspapers that will only have an Internet edition. From September 1, Jornal do Brasil will discontinue its print edition, Nelson Ta nure, the owner of the 119-year-old newspaper, said on Wednesday. Published from Rio de Janeiro, the once-influential …
This paper specifically describes the urbanization experience of Brazil, by far the largest country in Latin America, and which has attained levels of urbanization that surpass those of most European countries. Despite historical differences in timing and context, the trajectory of urbanization in Brazil holds many parallels and key lessons …
The report highlights the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas, the report exposes the untold cost of obtaining
SEVERE anaemia is the major cause of death in malaria patients. Soon after infection, parasite Plasmodium invades red blood cells and bursts them, causing anaemia. Controlling malaria has been a challenge for Asian and Latin American countries where helminthiasis, another anaemia-causing disease, is prevalent. It occurs when the body is …
