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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 23, 2007
Emerging Markets
Tokyo-Sao Paulo-Rio-New York-Washington …
Plenty of signs suggest that a fair amount of money is leaving Japan to look for higher yields elsewhere. More and more of those outflows seem to be coming from leveraged investors who borrow yen …
May 27, 2011
China
Latin America’s Growing Middle Class
Thousands of commuters pack the Se metro subway station in Sao Paulo (Paulo Whitaker / Courtesy Reuters). Two recent studies look at the rise of Latin America’s middle class. The first, by ECLAC (Ec…
June 25, 2015
China
Infrastructure on Rousseff’s Agenda
This is a guest post by Emilie Sweigart, an intern here at the Council on Foreign Relations who works with me in the Latin America Studies program. Even as Brazil pushes forward austerity measures…
April 22, 2014
United States
Brazil’s Internet Summit: Building Bridges to Avoid “Splinternet”
Coauthored with Claire Schachter, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Netizens of the world are in Sao Paulo this week for the Global Multistakeholder…
January 11, 2017
Brazil
The Even Scarier Thing About Brazil’s Prison Violence
Prison violence has taken the lives of more than one hundred Brazilian prisoners since the beginning of the year. While the recent killings have been gruesome and especially numerous, they are a cont…
