All details will be revealed to Suriname’s President on Block 58’s development prospects, said TotalEnergies’ Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanné. Speaking at the Barclays CEO-Energy Power Conference being held in New York, Pouyanné said that the oil field is big enough “to launch a sizeable deepwater development” but held other details close. He is due for…
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By Jason Marczak and Pepe Zhang Insanity, the saying goes, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. With Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently projected to grow at just 1.9 percent this year and 2.2 percent next year, the lowest of any developing regions except war-battered Emerging and…
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In mining, mercury is usually used for gold separation Bruna Alves From São Paulo to BBC News Brazil Illegal mines, which use excess mercury to enable the separation of gold from other sediments, cause the contamination of fish, the death of rivers, the removal of vegetation cover and, consequently, the escape of animals. All this…
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Lula, the president of Brazil, speaks to his minister of Indigenous peoples, Sonia Guajajara, at the Amazon summit. Photograph: Ricardo Stuckert/Brazilian presidency/AFP/Getty Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest Tom Phillips in Belém, Patrick Greenfield and agencies Amazon leaders have called on rich…
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AFPDemonstrators, including indigenous people from Amazon countries, marched in Belém on Tuesday as the summit kicked off By Katy Watson in Belém, Brazil & Christy Cooney in London BBC News The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. Delegates from the countries are meeting in…
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We mean: Really? eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, July 27, 2023– The fierce discussion about the fires in the Brazilian rainforest these weeks is reminiscent of one of the classic theorems in environmental science: The Tragedy of the Commons. In a much-cited 1968 article, American philosopher and biologist Garett Hardin discusses that commonly shared resources are at risk…
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¿Qué papel para la participación laboral femenina? En ocasión del lanzamiento de las Perspectivas Económicas de la OCDE, este panel de expertos de alto nivel tuvo como objetivo facilitar el intercambio de opiniones y experiencias entre expertos de América Latina sobre cómo incrementar la participación laboral femenina en América Latina y así reforzar el crecimiento…
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Isayen Herrera // Sheyla Urdaneta Photographs //Adriana Loureiro Fernandez Amsterdam July 23d 2023— Each morning, José Aguilera inspects the leaves of his banana and coffee plants on his farm in eastern Venezuela and calculates how much he can harvest — almost nothing. Explosive gas flares from nearby oil wells spew an oily, flammable residue on the…
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Moves Expected eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, July 24 2023== The government in Guyana predicts that oil related projects in Guyana predict that a year’s oil revenue will be equivalent to almost its total outstanding debt. However, political opponents to the current administration have said the country’s debt is mounting and this could impact its future prospects. Alliance…
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