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		<title>The BASIC meeting in Rio has made more progress than the official statement said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sérgio Abranches The BASIC meeting in Rio has had many new developments, but they were not mentioned in the official Joint Statement. Ministers from the BASIC countries shared a growing sentiment that it is unlikely that a second period of commitment to the Kyoto Protocol will ever be agreed by parties to the climate talks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/07/28/the-basic-meeting-in-rio-has-made-more-progress-than-the-official-statement-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Christiana Figueres&#8217; political challenge on her way to COP16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches The Major Economies Forum &#8211; MEF, held in Rome between June 30 and July 1, used the Copenhagen Accord as a central reference regarding global climate change policies. At UNFCCC’s Bonn discussions last April, however, the Copenhagen Accord continued to be a matter of controversy and disagreement among the parties. The MEF gathers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/07/09/a-political-challenge-to-christiana-figueres-on-her-way-to-cop16/</link>
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		<title>The Coalition of the Willing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ‘Coalition of the Willing’: how to galvanize and enlist the global publics in the fight against global warming. ‘Coalition of the Willing’ is a collaborative animated film and web-based event about an online war against global warming in a post Copenhagen world. Directed and produced by Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner and crafted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/06/30/the-coalition-of-the-willing/</link>
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		<title>Bonn: no &#8220;grand accord&#8221; possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches The preparatory Climate Change meeting in Bonn has closed showing small progress. It should be clear by now that UNFCCC will never lead to a &#8220;grand accord&#8221;. The best way possible is to build upon the Copenhagen Accord: targets and actions already filed represent 86% of total global carbon emissions. The sum total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/06/14/bonn-no-grand-accord-possible/</link>
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		<title>Political threats to the Brazilian rainforest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches How can a supposedly communist legislator champion the interests of traditional landowners, and seek amnesty to illegal logging, often associated with violent land-grabbing and force-labor? The Brazilian House is right now discussing a bill proposing changes in the Forestry Code Law that does exactly that. The proposal under discussion was drafted by communist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/06/12/political-threats-to-the-brazilian-rainforest/</link>
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		<title>Brazil drops incentives to electric cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches After a few days of internal squabbling president Lula decided to drop a proposal from the Ministers of Finance and Science &#38; Technology to launch a program to incentivize domestic production of electric cars. The decision came after pressure from the Development Minister, responding to the auto industry and ethanol lobbies. He argued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/06/02/brazil-drops-plans-to-create-incentives-to-electric-cars/</link>
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		<title>Climate Politics 2010: after Copenhagen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches We should not expect too much from the first climate talks after Copenhagen, now taking place in Bonn. There are still some political obstacles to tackle before we can get any real further progress.Copenhagen was marked by excessive expectations and curtailed by the plot of a small group of nations to impose an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/06/01/climate-politics-2010-after-copenhagen/</link>
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		<title>Brazilian agribusiness at the crossroads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches The Brazilian agribusiness is at a crossroads. After a success story it is now running the risk of loosing quality markets due to bad social and environmental practices.Brazil has become the largest market for about a dozen of pesticides that have been banned in the U.S. and the European Union because they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/05/31/brazilian-agribusiness-at-the-crossroads/</link>
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		<title>Brazil delays enabling legislation on climate change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches After a fast-track approval of the climate change bill, its enabling legislation is deadlocked at the Civil Household. The bill was rushed through Congress for president Lula to arrive in Copenhagen with the law already signed. But without the enabling legislation it is useless, and emission reduction targets cannot be enforced. The Civil Household [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/05/21/brazil-delays-enabling-legislation-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from the spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches The Gulf of Mexico oil spill tells us a story of disregard for the risk of deep sea oil extraction, and bad risk governance. It reflects an overall failure to account for risk of environmental damage and the associated economic losses of deep sea oil drilling and extraction projects. That the leakage continues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/05/03/lessons-from-the-spill/</link>
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