On a patch of grass outside the Rondonia State headquarters for Brazil’s airborne Amazon police stands a post-modern totem pole. A metal tree, 20 feet high, whose branches are recycled chainsaws on stalks. The whole thing is painted forest green. The chainsaws are real. All of them, confiscated by police officers from illegal loggers. Weapons,…
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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…
Should rich countries pay to save the world’s rainforests? Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller travelled through the Amazon to find out if a strategy called the Redd plan can really work.
Channel 4 News spends a week in Brazil and finds an emerging economic power house approaching environmental crossroads.
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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…
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Jon Snow blogs from Brazil where he believes climate change is the most important issue facing mankind.
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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.
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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.
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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…
Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…
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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…
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Jon Snow blogs from Brazil on the start of a special week of reports.
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Last night I found myself in the ornate circumstance of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. I also found myself too in the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order. For this was an event in which the old world of European kings and queens were making way for a citizen of the…