Blog posts tagged "Brazil"

November 2, 2011 7:40 am 5 Comments

In an age where there is a paucity of global leaders, former Brazilian president Lula is someone the world can ill afford to lose. We should wish him well as he goes under the knife later today.

December 5, 2009 1:59 pm 6 Comments

Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

December 3, 2009 1:36 pm 7 Comments

I’m very conscious I haven’t blogged for a few days. Partly a consequence of the gigantic scale of Brazil – every night is spent flying and manoeuvring to get somewhere deep into the issues on climate change ahead of Copenhagen. I’m sitting in the early morning sun on the far side of the Amazon (ten [...]

November 30, 2009 11:00 am 59 Comments

I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his [...]

November 29, 2009 4:51 pm 30 Comments

Jon Snow blogs from Brazil where he believes climate change is the most important issue facing mankind.

November 26, 2009 11:37 am No Comments

World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

November 25, 2009 11:43 am No Comments

As a leading UK climate change expert says half the years between 2010 and 2019 will be hotter than 1998 – the hottest year ever, Jon Snow blogs from Brazil.

November 24, 2009 7:53 pm No Comments

I’ve been in Brazil for three days now, but only just woken up to the reality that the humungous city of Sao Paolo is only the beginning of it. This morning I broke out, and we drove more than 400 kilometres west – a distance, well, heading from London to well past Newcastle. Let me [...]

11:31 am No Comments

From Jon Snow’s Boos from Brazil: “Just been out across the city in a helicopter – you may think that a curious thing to do at night in the middle of the largest city on earth, or one of. But that’s actually what about 500 businessmen do anyway. “We decided to commute with this guy [...]

November 23, 2009 10:35 am No Comments

Jon Snow blogs from Brazil on the start of a special week of reports.