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Corporate sustainability reporting partnership

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil, Denmark, France, Global, South Africa
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June 24 2012

Brazil, Denmark, France, and South Africa announced a partnership June 20 at the Rio20 Conference to encourage sustainability reporting as a standard practice among companies

Brazilian ethanol credit line

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil
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January 15 2012

Brazil’s Development Bank announced last week a 4 billion real credit line that agribusinesses can use to expand or renew sugar cane plantations to produce more ethanol

Brazilian ethanol exports to expand

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil, USA
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January 8 2012

A Brazilian trade association official said December 29 that the country’s ethanol industry anticipates sales to the United States to increase significantly by 2016 due to the expiration of a harsh duty on ethanol imports

Brazil to increase funding for wind generation

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil
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October 24 2011

On October 19, the Brazilian Development Bank's electric energy department announced that it expects to provide $2.5 billion in financing for wind generation projects in 2011, up from $364 million in 2010

Biofuel production up

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil, USA
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September 8 2011

The Worldwatch Institute unveiled a report August 30 that showed a 17 percent increase in global biofuel production between 2009 and 2010

US-Brazil initiatives underway

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil, USA
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August 21 2011

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson led a delegation August 15 to Rio de Janeiro to establish the U.S.-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability

Poneman to Brazil to launch Strategic Energy Dialogue

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil, USA
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August 14 2011

On August 17, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman is travelling to Brazil with officials from the departments of State and Commerce, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corp to launch the U.S.-Brazil Strategic Energy Dialogue, announced by President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in March

Brazil releases 10 year plan

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil
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June 19 2011

Brazil unveiled a new Energy Expansion Plan last week that includes a large increase in wind power and stable growth from other energy sources

Sao Paulo emissions increasing

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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Brazil
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May 8 2011

Brazilian Sao Paulo state Energy Secretariat released a report recently that found that CO2 emissions in the state, which is the nation’s industrial hub, are on pace to increase 64.4 percent over 2005 levels by 2020, despite the state’s goal of reducing emissions 20 percent by that time