Brazil: growth, adaptive capacity & new green technologies
environmental opportunities and antagonisms for Brazil in the 21st CenturyArchive for Audio
Drought in North East: traditional farming
Guardian Audio interview: Problems for Amazon
Audio interview (eng) with Paulo Moutinho, Director of the Insitute for Environmental Research of Amazonia (IPAM). Lack of a cost attached to destroying standing forest as the overarching problem facing the region. Other topics broached include the dessicating impact of El Nino in excarcebating the problems of the spread of Amazonian forest fires.
BBC World Service: ‘The World’s Shifting Balance’
BBC World Service radio programme presented by Martin Wolf (click through for mp3 here). Wolf talks to people including Charles Dumas, Justin Lin and Kenneth Rogoff about whether global economic governance needs to be rethought. E.g.The outdated, empty pronouncements of the G-7 as well as SWFs of large emerging economies propping up developed nations’ banks.
Bric not bRIC
Wide ranging audio interview from Estadao.com.br (port) with Chris Garman, Director of Latin America practice at consulting firm Eurasia.
