O endereço abaixo não existe na globo.com The programme runs on a loyalty reward scheme where points are obtained by residents recycling in the community Aseptic carton packaging supplier SIG has expanded its so+ma Vantagens programme with the opening of a new unit in the city of Campo Largo The programme is run in partnership with NGO so+ma and enables underprivileged communities to practice a circular economy by correctly recycling waste The new unit will complement SIG’s five other existing units located across the country in Vila Sandra People can bring their recyclable waste to these locations which will then be weighed and exchanged for loyalty points These points can be exchanged for professional improvement courses They can also use the credit as discounts in stores and for products provided by SIG’s customers Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis the programme has received 54,000kg of waste from more than 400 participants across SIG’s six hubs SIG South America sustainability manager Isabela de Marchi said: “Bringing this new unit shows that we are on the path of expansion and partnership with the programme and aligned with the objectives of the company’s global sustainability strategy increasing the rates of packaging recycling in Brazil and encouraging people’s behaviour “And I am happy that this new location is in our home since SIG’s industrial plant is located in Campo Largo.” In April this year, SIG expanded its presence in India with the opening of its second production plant in Palghar Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network This is the sixth of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in February for Mongabay to assess the impacts of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people Edjarsson Cardoso places folders full of documents — some more than 20 years old — on the pool table of a dimly lit bar in the rural Brazilian town of Riachão das Neves With him stand seven other men who wish to prove their right to use farmland One-by-one, all of them were driven off the land where they once grew their food. After changing ownership for decades, today that property belongs to a Brazilian subsidiary of Harvard University’s endowment fund It appears that Harvard’s US$37.1 billion endowment fund and its manager Harvard Management Company (HMC) has invested in the Brazilian agribusiness frontier — investments steeped in past accusations of forged land titles illegal deforestation and violent expulsion of small-scale farmers from their homes This is not an isolated case of financial investments fuelling land grabbing During the global financial crisis of 2007/08 when faced with turbulent financial markets increasingly turned toward rural farmland speculation in developing nations showing how international financial capital is used to adversely impact the people and forests of Brazil At the heart of this particular dispute is a land parcel covering 140,000 hectares (540 square miles) — an area bigger than Los Angeles — that was acquired through allegedly illegal A small part of this 140,000 hectare parcel was lost by the men standing around the pool table — land which they are trying to regain located on the left bank of the Rio Grande in the municipality of Cotegipe the 140,000-hectare area (where the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes meet) a minimally productive operation that grows some eucalyptus trees and grazes cattle that land was held by the Brazilian government (terras devolutas) and was being settled legally by 240 small-scale farm families Those families took out loans to build their homes on the land They also began paying the taxes due on the land and awaited legal regularization and recognition by the government a common situation in rural Brazil where the government holds onto large land blocs until small-scale farmers known as “posseiros,” lay claim to it by putting it into cultivation most of the families had worked for large-scale farms But they were on track to earning economic independence for themselves and their families Instead they faced threats and violence — intimidation aimed at making them abandon their land claims destroying our houses,” remembers Edjarsson Cardoso leader of an association representing 22 families Cardoso fled his farm back in the 1990s and settled in Riachão das Neves where he now lives frugally on a state pension But 22 families kept fighting to reclaim their collectively owned total of 1,100 hectares (2,718 acres) a small portion of the Campo Largo farm’s vast holdings We just want to put an end to the gunslingers I myself was threatened by armed men back then,” remembers Antônio Augusto França “We have been suffering the consequences [of the land thieves] for 24 years After receiving reports of escalating violence It mapped out the contested properties and documented the alleged land conflicts the government’s agrarian department (CDA) issued a Rural Discriminatory Action The state investigation concluded that the farmland was indeed taken from the state via “absurd notary irregularities,” and via the expulsion by physical violence of rural workers along with “worrying environmental distress.” The CDA also confirmed one death due to the conflict but has not revealed further details of that fatal incident “This constitutes — in territorial extension — the biggest [discriminatory action] ever done in [Bahia] state,” wrote Bahia prosecutor Estácio Marques Dourado in a case summary Dourado forwarded the finding to the State Prosecutor’s Office (PGE) “I can say there has been pressure from agribusiness politicians for the [legal] process to stop,” says Mauricio Correa a member of the Association of Lawyers of Rural Workers in the State of Bahia the lawyers association plans to pressure PGE to reopen the case but Marques Dourado no longer holds a position there PGE responded that the case is indeed pending the institution has sought a conflict mediation and involves the region’s main economic activity and [the lawsuit’s] consequences would have serious social side effects,” said the chief prosecutor of the PGE administrative office The prosecutor adds that the property’s current owner has not managed to verify its ownership through documents and [explain how] it managed to form the latifundio [large property] registered in the name of the company today.” That is the reason that “the attempt [at mediation] did not succeed.” In February 2018 Camardelli Loi recommended the opening of a lawsuit against Caracol If Caracol loses the case the 140,000-hectare Campo Largo farm could see its reintegration as land belonging to Bahia state The lands allegedly seized by violence and intimidation have been passed from one owner to another first from a Bahia state deputy named Márcio Cardoso This last transfer of ownership occurred on portions of the disputed farmland between 2008 and 2012 is believed to own Caracol through two subsidiaries: Guara LLC and Bromelia LLC which emphasizes the fund’s goal of improving the properties it acquires — both environmentally and socially is critical of the implementation of these policies “Many companies deliberately set up structures that make it hard to track them,” says Kuyek Complex ownership networks are often developed as a means of circumventing Brazilian legislation regulating foreign investments In 2010, in an effort to restrain an escalation in the purchases of rural properties by foreigners, the Brazilian government tightened restrictions on international land acquisitions the law says that several distinct foreign investors can own no more than 25 percent of the land within any particular municipality while investors of the same nationality can own a maximum of 10 percent of a municipality’s lands Caracol’s farmland purchases account for well above those limits at 35 percent of the Cotegipe municipality’s area “Caracol and the Harvard fund have the obligation to make sure that land they acquire is free of conflict Caracol was informed early on regarding the problematic ownership of the land they were seeking to acquire Mayr explains that the previous property owner was known to have offered the small-scale farmers financial or material remuneration in order to vacate the land before selling it to Caracol “Those who didn’t agree became targets of threats and violence through gunslingers,” Mayr says None of the 240 families is living on the disputed land today In addition to the allegations surrounding the land purchase R$123,000 (US$ 37,000) for illegal deforestation occurring in 2013 The 240 families who originally laid claim to the land now occupied by the Campo Largo farm lost their land years ago they and other small-scale farmers and traditional people like them face a different sort of battleground — an unlevel playing field tipped even more steeply against them due to the investment of large amounts of foreign capital “Land grabbing is an historical process, but the dynamics of that process has changed. Today there are international investment structures behind these [property] violations. This is something very new,” says Fábio Pitta, from Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos   with agricultural land purchases made in developing countries They discovered that once land was deforested and converted into agribusiness-scale crop production the value of the property in question tended to rise This value also can fluctuate according to how much private or public investment flows into a region with the income earned from harvested crops serving as a secondary stream of return Despite its restrictions, Brazil is among five nations in the world today seeing the highest rate of foreign purchases of farmland The Latin American nation is popular among investors because its lands are accessible and because Brazil is seen as a safer investment due to its political stability as compared to many other countries “But there are many land conflicts and human rights violations connected to [these farmland investments],” he adds Piauí and Bahia — collectively known as Matopiba the vast savannah biome — are the latest frontier of industrial agribusiness expansion in Brazil As such, Matopiba is now a prime target for land speculation, according to a report by Rede Social The four states are highly attractive to foreign investors and property values are projected to rise quickly as large-scale soy with transnational commodities companies like Cargill and Bunge eager to buy up crops for export the increased purchase of properties by international investors is “outsourced,” and as a result indirectly linked to the expropriation of land from small-scale farmers traditional communities and indigenous groups who often have lived on their properties for decades local elites often drive small landholders or squatters off the land who turn the property over to large-scale agribusiness This appears to be the sequence of events that occurred to establish the 140,000-hectare Campo Largo farm This often illegal process has adverse outcomes for conservation as it accelerates the pace of deforestation and the conversion of native vegetation into farmland and cattle ranches in the Cerrado — a Brazilian biome that accounts for 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity and whose rivers and aquifers help supply much of Brazil and Latin America with water Of its 140,000 hectares (540 square miles) the Campo Largo farm today uses less than 300 hectares (1.15 square miles) to produce corn Another 14,000 hectares (54 square miles) was used as pasture for 3,200 cows the farm has apparently become less productive Rede Social’s Daniela Stefano went to Cotegipe in March 2017 and was able to get onto the Campo Largo farm She confirms that not much seems to be happening there with cattle grazing and eucalyptus growing the only significant activities the farm’s employees decreased from 84 a few years ago to 50 today Large parts of the property have been taken over by native vegetation she says; she didn’t spot any armed men guarding the farm Stefano attended a meeting between the community and Granflor “When the company representative was asked whether Caracol knew that there was a conflict [with the small-scale farmers] before buying it Neither Caracol nor Granflor responded to our requests for comment before publication According to the Bahia state government investigation the men gathered around the Riachão das Neves pool table had their livelihoods and properties taken from them via an illegal land acquisition or “grilagem,” as it is called in Portuguese and we can’t do anything about it,” says Pedro dos Santos Serpa “The only thing I’m eager to hear is: look Edjarsson Cardoso picks up one of the folders on the pool table and opens it Every document has been carefully sorted chronologically and stored in a plastic case He flicks through the folder one last time before he says goodbye to us and leaves the bar Cardoso is holding on to every relevant piece of paper firmly in the forlorn hope that these documents will one day be legally recognized justifying at last a return to the place he calls home FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post The “fortress conservation” model is under pressure in East Africa as protected areas become battlegrounds over history and global efforts to halt biodiversity loss Mongabay’s Special Issue goes beyond the region’s world-renowned safaris to examine how rural communities and governments are reckoning with conservation’s colonial origins and trying to forge a path forward […] The 5 Star Movement opposed the entry of Action The coalition that will support Massimo Zedda in the Cagliari administrative elections will be the one that won the regional elections at the end of February at most extended to civic forces that want to join the political project It was Massimo Zedda himself who confirmed it at yesterday's summit in Cagliari with the forces of Campo Largo thus dispelling the fears of a breakdown in the coalition which became concrete after the "no" of the 5 Star Movement to the entry of Action which in the past regional had supported Renato Soru's project who confirmed that she welcomed the support of Calenda's party highlighted the fact that Action in other realities has made agreements with the right Read also other news on Nova News Click here and receive updates on WhatsApp Follow us on the social channels of Nova News on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram The clean energy will be supplied to Copco Airpower to partially power its smart factory in Wilrijk Engie has signed a corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) with Atlas Copco Airpower to deliver clean energy from its 325MW C-Power wind farm located offshore Belgium The clean energy will allow Atlas Copco Airpower to partially power its smart factory in Wilrijk with wind energy directly from the North Sea Atlas Copco Airpower airtech division president Wouter Ceulemans stated: “Atlas Copco Group wants to contribute to the sustainable energy transition we are taking another step towards achieving our sustainability goals reducing emissions from our own operations by 46% by 2030.” French multinational utility company Engie oversees a portion of the electricity produced by C-Power or Thornton Bank and distributes it to companies in Belgium Engie Belgium chief executive Vincent Verbeke stated: “As the world’s largest developer of green PPAs Engie wants to help its clients reduce the carbon footprint of their operations the company will be able to save 9,000t of CO² annually.” In August 2024, Engie Brasil Energia commenced commercial operations of the first 15 wind turbines at the Serra do Assuruá wind complex in Brazil Located in the municipality of Gentio do Ouro in Bahia the complex began operations following approval from the National Electric Energy Agency contributing 8% to the project’s total installed capacity the Serra do Assuruá wind complex will include 24 wind farms with 188 turbines Developed entirely by ENGIE Brasil Energia This new wind complex marks the fourth of its kind in Bahia where ENGIE Brasil Energia also operates the Umburanas Campo Largo 1 and Campo Largo 2 wind farms View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Previously he has occupied several positions in the European Commission His most recent post was Director for "Future Networks" in DG CONNECT dealing with policy development and research supporting the Digital Single Market from the angles of 5G networks Before he was Director for "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" responsible for FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) ICT based infrastructures for science and ICT trust and security Before joining the European Commission in 1990 he worked for 12 years in the R&D Centre of Portugal Telecom as a researcher and manager He holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Coimbra a Master of Science in Computing Science from Imperial College London a Post graduate in Management from Solvay Business School Brussels and a European Studies Diploma from Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve Brazil: GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has signed an agreement with major Brazilian utility company Engie Brasil to expand the company’s Campo Largo II wind farm substation To support the environmental sustainability of the Campo Largo complex located in Sento Sé in the northern state of Bahia GE will deliver two 200.000 kVA and 230 kV power transformers that use vegetable oil as an insulating medium and refrigerant in place of mineral oil Considered as one of the largest equipment of its kind in South America this transformer technology supplied by GE provides for a greener operation through its use of non-toxic and 99 % biodegradable vegetable oil Another important benefit of vegetable oil is that it is not flammable reducing the risk of fire and the associated need for preventive measures In addition to the delivery of transformers and high voltage equipment— such as circuit breakers and disconnect switches—the contract with Engie also awards GE the responsibility for engineering Xcel Energy will build a 280-km transmission line linking clean energy from southwest Minnesota to over 1 million homes across the Upper Midwest includes new and upgraded substations to boost power supply and reliability across southern Peru Wandoan South Solar 2 to power 120,000 homes and support Queensland’s net-zero ambitions © 2013-2025 | All Rights Reserved MERIT MEDIA INT This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Brazilian state for the killing of rural worker Antônio Tavares and for the injuries caused to another 185 people who were part of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) caravan violently repressed by the Military Police of Paraná state in May 2000 The sentence was published on Thursday (14) The court ordered compensation payment worth US$ 800,000 (about BRL 4 million) to Tavares' widow and his five children it ordered the payment of compensation ranging from 15 to 20 minimum wages (in Brazil it’s about US$ 264) to all the other people injured in the attack psychological and psychiatric treatment to those attacked The ruling also ordered that a public act be held to acknowledge the Brazilian state's responsibility in the case and that content about the violent episode be included in the training activities of Paraná's security forces as well as the adoption of measures to protect the monument in honor of Antônio Tavares located in the town of Campo Largo The orders were formally forwarded to Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs the ruling is addressed to the Brazilian state as a whole will have to comply with parts of the ruling which will be closely monitored by the Court He was shot dead by a Military Police officer after getting off a bus with other passengers other workers were injured and received no medical care linked to the Organization of American States (OAS) has been analyzing the case since February 2021 hearings were held in Costa Rica in the presence of Tavares' widow a survivor of the attack; organizations representing the victims; and members of the governments of Brazil and Paraná state The organizations that filed the complaint highlight that the context at the time in Paraná state was one of intense violence targeting rural workers with the criminalization of their struggle for the right to land such as those of Diniz Bento da Silva (known as Teixeirinha) Sebastião Camargo and Sétimo Garibaldi The country has already been sentenced by this same international court for Garibaldi's murder A military police investigation launched days after the murder of Antônio Tavares was closed on the grounds that the officers acted in "strict compliance with their legal duty" The Paraná State Court of Justice closed the criminal proceedings in the case claiming that the Military Court had already closed the case The petitions to the international court were filed after the possibilities of achieving justice through the local legal system had been zeroed Since Brazil has voluntarily submitted to the Inter-American Court the country must abide by the decisions taken and cannot appeal them All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced Germany-based SIG Combibloc completed the first construction phase at its first packaging plant in Brazil in July 2011 The new plant is located in Campo Largo near Curitiba SIG is investing €90m ($113m) in the construction of the plant over three phases One billion packs a year; three billion packs a year by 2013 The company announced a further investment of more than €36m ($47m) on the project in January 2013 The entire plant will cover an area of 24,000m² The first phase covered an area of 13,000m² and the second phase increased it to 19,000m² The ongoing third phase will increase the area covered to a total of 24,000m² The facility currently manufactures about one billion carton packs annually Capacity will be ramped up to three billion packs a year using six finishing lines when the latest phase of the project is realised by 2013 An extrusion line is currently being installed as part of the ongoing expansion SIG chose Campo Largo for its facility because of its excellent road ferry and air links and availability of a skilled workforce and logistics services About 200 people are currently employed at the project site with an additional 70 people expected to be employed during the coming months The plant currently manufactures combiblocStandard combiblocMidi and combifitMidi carton packs The combiblocStandard and combiblocMidi packs are available in 500ml The facility implements a flexible single filling machine which provides switching options for both combibloc and combifit formats It uses a very simple process in changing the volume and design of the packs The combifit packs are a premium version with a slanted top The packs are slim and their shape makes them easy to hold with capacities ranging from 150ml to 1,500ml SIG produces combibloc packs in nine different base formats Filling volumes of the packs range from 125ml to 2,000ml These carton packs are used to fill juices The combibloc cartons are easy to store and transport which ensures that no uncoated edges are present to contaminate the product will enable the plant to laminate the unprocessed cardboard for the carton packs The polymer layer inside the pack will provide a barrier for liquid and the outer layer will enable the pack to prevent moisture The aluminum layer will protect the packed food from light The packaging material used in producing the carton is coated, printed and cut into the desired shape using SIG technology It is then sealed with a special longitudinal seam to create a flat sleeve The filling machine seals the base of the sleeves and the interior of the pack is sterilised The sterilised product is then filled into the carton pack from the aseptic zone of the machine Sealing is done ultrasonically above the fill level and not through the product The plant converts the carton packs with paper sourced from Scandinavian suppliers Whole packages will be produced later with paper sourced from local suppliers SIG implements certified quality management systems in accordance with ISO 9001 and environmental management systems in accordance with ISO 14001 at the Parana plant certified hygiene management systems in accordance with the internationally established HACCP principles (hazard analysis and critical control points) have been put in place The objective of the hygiene management system is to guarantee that the packaging material and the packaging system are food-safe in line with food legislation and to ensure a high level of hygiene within the production and storage areas is maintained The new SIG Combibloc plant is part of the SIG growth strategy to tap into the South American market Demand for carton packs in the region is expected to grow at a rate of eight percent during the next two to three years SIG will be able to supply its products to customers in the market The South American market is experiencing an increase in demand for milk products non-carbonated drinks and soya-based drinks The market will become the second largest in demand for milk products launched its new recycling plant in Brazil in May 2005 Papier-Mettler’s new plastics recycling plant is located in the Hunsrück mountain region of Morbach in Germany Ato junto a monumento que homenageia Antônio Tavares em Campo Largo (PR) - Juliana Barbosa/MST-PR He was shot and died after he and other passengers got off one of the buses It was also requested to be presented to the Inter-American Court Terra de Direitos' international advocacy coordinator points out that Brazil has committed itself to respecting an extensive list of rights and mobilizing all the institutions to promote reparation – which did not happen in Tavares’ case "For a case to reach this level – being condemned by an international court – it needs to be a serious and very emblematic case of rights violations but it also needs to have had no adequate response within the country itself these are serious cases to which national authorities and the country's institutions have failed to respond," he says The organizations that filed the complaint highlight that the context at the time in Paraná state was one of intense violence targeting rural workers :: Landless Workers’ Movement celebrates 40 years and becomes the longest-running peasant movement in Brazil :: The petitions to the international court were filed after the possibilities of achieving justice through the local legal system had been zeroed Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs will formally accept Thursday's ruling different bodies may have to comply with parts of the ruling this will be closely monitored by the Court "[The Court] will establish specific measures regarding the victims, but it will also indicate the so-called guarantees of non-repetition: structural measures that the state needs to adopt so that these violations don't happen again to other people," explains Camila Gomes It takes a long time to start something fresh and a great deal to make it bloom and succeed In exchange for their hard work in the sector the Toronto construction firm became well-known A multi-million-dollar company that does marvels at the market presently started as a little-scale landscaping company If you 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