Word: brazile
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...grid and get credit for providing extra electricity they don't use. Governments are also pressuring utilities to meet targets for renewable sources of energy. The European Union, for instance, is requiring its members to boost electricity from renewables to 22% of production within the next eight years. Brazil plans to push a global standard at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg this month...
...Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once covered virtually the whole of eastern Brazil...
...backlash can be felt in the rise of left-wing politicians vowing to temper market coldheartedness with old-fashioned protections for workers and the poor. Erstwhile radicals like Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 56, fiery head of Brazil's Workers Party, are running on rejection of "the Washington Consensus," as the capitalist reforms have come to be called...
...neither he nor second-ranked Ciro Gomes, the candidate of the Workers Front coalition, is regarded with much enthusiasm in Washington. A former metalworker known for probity, Lula insists he won't nix the capitalist reforms but will make them fairer--starting with a crackdown on Brazil's epic tax evasion...
...Paulo, Lula's home base, single mother Janecleide Batista, 24, lost her job as a telephone operator when her company was sold to a foreign firm. Now she lives in a squatters' shack on a small vacant lot with eight other families. To her, free-market reforms mean that Brazil's World Cup-champion soccer team "gets free new cars, while we sit here on the street and get nothing." The Bush bailouts may buy time, but they may not be enough to prop up faith in the capitalist road to prosperity. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo and Matthew...