Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... commercial interests that continually slash the forests. Lula must hope that his new appointee, Carlos Minc, can quickly achieve success against formidable odds and before deforestation levels reach new heights.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
... posed a threat to the health of people or animals, or biodiversity. Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc said further modifications will be made to the Environmental Law. According to the minister, the current rules are excessively lenient as the law foresees short jail time for environmental crimes. (c) 2008 Xinhua News Agency - CEIS. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning....
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Source: Reuters BRASILIA, July 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's new environment minister, Carlos Minc, said on Thursday that the time required to license new large-scale projects such as hydroelectric plants would be slashed ...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Brazil reduces estimate of 2008 Amazon rainforest destruction RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc Tuesday said the government has revised its estimate of the Amazon rainforest's total destruction area for 2008 from 15,000 to 13,000 square km.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... serious problem and we called the public to show this ecological striptease," Environment Minister Carlos Minc told a news conference in Brasilia."The current situation is not sustainable," he added.In the Bom Futuro or "Good Future" National Park in northwestern Rondonia state, around 1,600 wildcat miners, farmers, loggers, and ranchers are raiding natural resources.In some years...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Source: Reuters SAO PAULO, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's new environment minister, Carlos Minc, called all sugar cane mills in the northeastern state of Pernambuco an environmental "disaster of disasters" and ...
Global Politics Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
... coup is to persuade his supporters to select a successor May 19: A brighter future for the Amazon Carlos Minc, Brazil’s new environment minister, won’t have his feet under his desk before the government auctions a concession to build and run the second of two controversial hydroelectric power stations in the heart of the Amazon Brazil looking to triple China trade (AP via Yahoo! Finance)...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
... Last week they expropriated a 3,500-strong herd in the state of Para, the new Environment Minister Carlos Minc told a news conference.Thought this might be of interest to the DU'ers who were concerned when the previous Environement Minister, Marina Silva, left mid-May.Marina Silva, Marina Silva and Carlos Minc , Carlos Minc
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
... Last week they expropriated a 3,500-strong herd in the state of Para, the new Environment Minister Carlos Minc told a news conference. “Illegal beef will become an environmental barbecue for zero hunger,” Minc said in reference to a government anti-hunger program that will receive the proceeds from the sale of seized cattle. Cattle ranching occupies as much as 80 percent of...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Greenpeace welcomes the decision to extend by one year the Amazon soya moratorium, made today at a press conference in Brasilia by the soya traders association (Abiove) (1), together with Brazil's new Environment Minister Carlos Minc, Greenpeace and other NGOs.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday. Carlos Minc made the announcement together with the Brazilian...
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Brasilia- Greenpeace welcomes the decision to extend by one year the Amazon soya (soybean) moratorium, announced today at a press conference in Brasilia by the soya traders association (Abiove), together with Brazil’s new Environment Minister Carlos Minc, Greenpeace and other NGOs.
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Associated PressBrazil soy crushers extend ban on purchases from newly deforested Amazon MICHAEL ASTOR, Associated Press Writer June 17, 2008 2:55 PMRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday.Carlos Minc made the...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday.
Carlos Minc made the announcement together with the Brazilian Vegetable Oils Industry Association, a soy industry group, as part of a larger effort to regulate land use...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
By Ana Nicolaci da CostaBRASILIA, June 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's new environment minister reached an agreement with the grain processing industry to ban purchases of soy from deforested Amazon until July 2009, winning praise from environmentalists."This same initiative will be extended to two other sectors -- the timber sector and the beef sector," Environment Minister Carlos Minc said...
