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Contributions from
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Studies and reports
AIDS drugs could soon be a lot cheaper in Africa
NGOs concerned about automony of development policy
Working together to protect the rainforest
Failing states: in search of a development policy concept
A new international financial architecture not in sight
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[ German-Brazilian government negotiations concluded ]
Working together to protect the rainforest
Protection for Brazil’s tropical rainforest, with its wealth of genetic resources and importance for the global climate, has been a focus of German-Brazilian cooperation for more than ten years. In that time, some exemplary rainforest protection and management projects have been created in the Amazon Basin. When the government of President Lula da Silva took office, it inherited this environmental legacy.
In the intergovernmental talks that ended at the beginning of December in Brasilia, Germany and Brazil agreed to continue their rainforest protection cooperation in the G7 pilot programme (PPG7), on the climate protection front and in the Brazilian government’s poverty reduction programme “Zero hunger”. The German government put up a total of 50.745 million euros to finance continued cooperation.
Germany and Brazil also agreed to strengthen their strategic alliance ahead of next June’s “renewables 2004” energy conference in Bonn. In cooperation with Brazilian partners, the German side will promote alternative energies and energy efficiency programmes more vigorously than in the past. The intergovernmental talks followed hard on the heels of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of German-Brazilian development cooperation – an occasion attended in Brazil by Germany’s Federal President Johannes Rau.
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