Bahia – Brasil   Em meados de abril,… Feira de Santana is a fast-growing city in Brazil’s northern region of Bahia with a population of approximately 600,000 Its proximity to Salvador makes it a crucial transport node for goods and people all over Brazil the city mobility system is facing increasing challenges Public transport networks are few and far between and citizens rely heavily on single use vehicles or informal transport to get around the city Congestion considerably slows traffic at peak times prevent citizens from walking or cycling as well as from using the existing public transport network more extensively the Prefecture of Feira de Santana has been working on developing a more robust public transport network which includes implementing a Bus Rapid Transit system As a significant employer in Feira de Santana WBCSD member Pirelli has a keen interest in supporting the city to deliver safer more efficient and accessible mobility to its citizens WBCSD and Pirelli have worked together with the Prefecture of Feira to develop an innovative and inclusive Sustainable Urban Mobility plan using WBCSD’s SiMPlify methodology The SiMPlify methodology engages all relevant stakeholders and involves citizens in the development of inclusive sustainable urban mobility planning By deploying SiMPlify’s system of indicators combined with an extensive outreach campaign and regular consultations the Prefecture of Feira de Santana was able to develop a detailed analysis of the current mobility system and tap into SiMPlify’s 300 mobility solutions to develop a plan that would meet its needs This process provided several ideas for initiatives that would complement the existing plans: A publicly accessible mobility portal keeps citizens updated and allows them to interact with the municipality and report traffic-related issues in real time Leveraging the findings from the SiMPlify analysis and involving all stakeholders the city of Feira de Santana is now deploying BRL 100 million (USD $26 million) to implement its Sustainable Mobility Plan 21 June 2016 - The exhibition "Forever Free - Livres para sempre" about the history of the slave trade in the world third destination of the exhibition in Brazil which has already been seen in Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi As a joint initiative of the Central Unica das Favelas Bahia (CUFA-BA) and the United Nations Information Centre in Brazil (UNIC Rio) and part of a series of activities of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) the exposition - with free admission - will be open until the end of July 2016 at the University Centre for Culture and Art (CUCA) of State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) The site is open from 9am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm The opening was attended by several authorities including Municipal Secretaries of Culture and Education representatives from black movements and entities of the legal field the president of Association of Afros and Afoxés Blocks the President the City Council of Feira de Santana state legislators and the communications adviser of UNIC Rio consisting of panels that portray - and explain - the history of the transatlantic slave trade was created by the United Nations to remember the 400 years in which more than 15 million people were victims of one of the most nefarious chapters of human history that should not be forgotten Copyright©2025 UNODC, All Rights Reserved, Legal Notice 2024) President — Vladimir Jahir Villacrés Varas Banco Pichincha commercial officer and services; succeeding Juan Miguel Nieto Mayorga; wife Municipal Gad Canton Simón Bolívar head of public procurement; wife Emsaba EP billing and collection assistant; wife manager; succeeding Jorge Erico Gomez Rodas; wife Counselors — César Felipe Alvarez Portillo The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints property manager; wife 2024) President — Edson Jorge dos Santos Nogueira Team do Brasil industrial maintenance technician; succeeding Hugo Marcelo Arostegui Viega; wife Counselors — Luciano Cosmme Figueiredo Ferreira Holy House of Mercy of Saint Anthony of Jesus purchasing administrator; wife 2024) President — Ricardo Fabian Camargo Vazquez Marfrig Global Food Marfrig Fray Bentos manager; succeeding Hugo Ariel Silva Viglielm; wife 2024) President — Guillermo Alejandro Quintana Veloso independent food technician; succeeding Hector Renato Carcamo Vargas; wife Counselors — Rodrigo Alejandro Manquel Guajardo head of the government bank in the Isthmus and Coast of Oaxaca; succeeding Francisco Alberto Diaz Carcini; wife real estate broker; succeeding Carols Ivan Filipponi; wife businessman; succeeding Kleber Pereira dos Santos; wife Counselors — Francisco Eduardo Custodio Oliveira Colégio Fonte do Saber secondary and elementary school teacher; wife Kelian Renata Azevêdo dos Santos Nascimento 2024) President — Piero Vladimir Echanique Vera Echanique Cueva Urbanization manager; succeeding Christian Antonio Torres Zhune; wife Counselors — Luis Eduardo Monserrate Silva National Police Cooperative business adviser; wife Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) grants FINAME certificate to the company's solar trackers for meeting Brazil's local content requirements 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GameChange Solar (GCS) cost-effective solar tracking solutions for ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) plants and technical support center exclusively for its Genius Tracker™ solar trackers in Feira de Santana It has the capacity to produce 2.5 GW of trackers and can be expanded to meet additional demand the Brazilian factory will be able to supply Genius Tracker units to other Latin American countries the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has granted FINAME certification for its GameChange Solar Genius Tracker trackers assuring industry customers that the trackers meet Brazil's domestic content and manufacturing process requirements "Opening our new factory in Brazil demonstrates GameChange Solar's commitment to the Brazilian solar economy," said Vikas Bansal International President at GameChange Solar "As a global leader and supplier of solar tracker technology and providing high-quality solar jobs in one of the fastest-growing solar markets in the world We are open for business and will start fulfilling orders immediately." Operations Director & Head of Brazil at GameChange Solar added "Having the factory and service center in addition to our business headquarters in São Paolo is such a great step for us in Brazil We will be able to provide unparalleled service to our customers with the ability to provide in-country manufacturing new investments in Brazil's solar PV industry could exceed BRL 38.9 billion ($7.8 billion) in 2024 with developers expected to install more than 9.3 GW of solar capacity this year GameChange is a leading global provider of solar tracker solutions used in utility-scale and ground-mounted distributed generation solar projects around the world We have delivered over 26 GW of solar tracker and fixed tilt systems that combine fast installation and unbeatable value through superior engineering Our products enable solar panels at power plants to follow the sun's movement across the sky and optimize plant performance while also protecting the array from damaging weather conditions is growing a portfolio of products for the broader balance of system needs of solar arrays For more information, please visit GameChange Solar Contact:Lisa AndrewsDirector of MarketingGameChange Solar[email protected] Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2321649/GameChange_Solar_Brazil_Factory_for_LinkedIn.jpg Do not sell or share my personal information: Guest Editors:Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland IcelandAlessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana BMC Ecology and Evolution called for research on the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution.  Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland Isabel C Barrio is a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the Agricultural University of Iceland Her research interests relate to plant-herbivore interactions in tundra ecosystems and her research in Iceland focuses on the impacts of sheep grazing on common highland ranges Isabel obtained her PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2010 from the University of Castilla La Mancha and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta (Canada) before moving to Iceland in 2015 Isabel is one of the founding members of the Herbivory Network and is Subject Editor for Oikos Alessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana (Biological Sciences - Botany) from the University of São Paulo He carried out post-doctoral studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew-UK) and is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil) He joined BMC in 2021 and has expertise in Plant Systematics with a particular interest in the Neotropical flora BMC Ecology and Evolution has published this Collection on "Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution." BMC Ecology and Evolution has published this Collection to bring together research on: Image credit: © RomoloTavani / Getty Images / iStock During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection please select "Plants under pressure: the impact of environment change on plant ecology and evolution" from the dropdown menu Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests By 2023-09-07T13:44:00+01:00 BRAZIL: Plans to launch regional passenger services over seven short or medium-distance routes are likely to be included in a National Railway Plan due to be published by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva in October A Passenger Rail Transport Policy establishing guidelines principles and objectives for new passenger trains is expected to be launched around the same time Feasibility studies covering technical and economic assessments will be needed for all seven routes In each case the intention would be to use a public-private partnership to establish the passenger service although questions remain about raising the money needed as well as operating costs In most cases existing rail alignments used by freight trains could be utilised but substantial track and infrastructure rehabilitation work is likely to be needed Initial details of the seven routes were outlined last month at the Rail Interoperability Forum organised by the Institute of Engineering Undersecretary for Partnerships in the Ministry of Transport Olavo Soares Bastos said on that occasion that the rail sector was a priority for the government suburban trains run in several Brazilian cities but the only main line passenger services are on the 1 000 mm gauge Estrado de Ferro Vitória a Minas and the 1 600 mm gauge Estrado de Ferro Carajás; both are operated by mining group Vale BRAZIL: Construction of a three-line tram network in the coastal city of Salvador This follows the state government’s approval for the 36∙4 km project on June 14 and the opening of contractors’ tenders on June 4 .. BRAZIL: The state government of Bahia has approved the call of tenders for the construction of a three-line light rail network in Salvador totalling 36 km at an estimated cost of R$3·6bn The first 16·6 km line would link Calçada in the centre of the conurbation .. Brazil: major rail developments – project map Site powered by Webvision Cloud own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment View all partners The United States and Brazil have much in common when it comes to the coronavirus And in both countries the virus is disproportionately affecting black people the result of structural racism that dates back to slavery Brazil forcibly brought some 4 million enslaved Africans into the country over three centuries, more than anywhere else in the Americas. About half its 209 million people are black – the world’s second largest African-descendant population after Nigeria Modern Brazil never had legalized racial discrimination like Jim Crow, but race-based inequalities are deeply entrenched. Despite a persistent myth of Brazil as an integrated “racial democracy,” employment discrimination and residential segregation limit opportunity for black people Because government data in Brazil is not automatically collected by race or ethnicity, though, the health impacts of racism can be hard to measure. Bolsonaro’s administration did not require the collection of COVID-19 racial data until late April Now, data collected in May by outside researchers for over 5,500 municipalities shows that 55% of Afro-Brazilian patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 died compared to 34% of white COVID-19 patients We are health researchers – one American, one Brazilian – who for many years have studied how racial disparities in Brazil affect black people looking at everything from sickle cell anemia to reproductive health Our research over the past two months finds structural racism – in the form of high-risk working conditions unequal access to health and worse housing conditions – is a major factor shaping Brazil’s COVID-19 pandemic Unlike the U.S., Brazil has free, universal health care. But its public hospitals have been woefully underfunded since a deep recession that began in 2015 Intensive care beds are now in short supply at public hospitals in several cities fighting coronavirus outbreaks. This is especially detrimental to black COVID-19 patients, since Afro-Brazilians rely more heavily on the public health system than white Brazilians who often have private health insurance through their jobs Generally speaking, the higher the salary, the less likely Afro-Brazilians are to have a job. Many work in the informal and service sectors, as house cleaners or street vendors During the pandemic, this economic insecurity severely lessens Afro-Brazilians’ ability to socially distance and makes them highly dependent on staying in their jobs despite the health threat Maids, for example – most of whom are black women – are proving to be a high-risk group. Domestic workers were among Brazil’s first COVID-19 deaths Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak originated in wealthy neighborhoods whose residents had traveled to Europe, but the disease is now spreading fastest in its poor Just over 12 million Brazilians, most of them black, live in such informal urban settlements, from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to the “peripheries” of São Paulo. These areas have inadequate access to water and sanitation making it difficult to follow basic hygiene recommendations like washing one’s hands with soap So while the disparate impact of COVID-19 on black Brazilians was not inevitable our research explains why it’s unsurprising The racism that pervades nearly every facet of Brazilian society increases black people’s exposure to the virus – then reduces their ability to get to quality care [You need to understand the coronavirus pandemic, and we can help. Read The Conversation’s newsletter.] Latin America’s largest democracy suffered a record 63,880 homicides last year and the phenomenon is driving some to support the hardline policies of candidate Jair Bolsonaro Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent cities when she heard a volley of gunfire and her count was rendered suddenly out of date. Read moreOne unpaved street away, her nextdoor neighbour, 17-year-old Ruan Patrick Ramos Cruz, lay dead in the dirt after being repeatedly shot in the head and chest by unknown assassins a community leader in Loteamento Alameda das Árvores a rundown 288-home settlement on the southern fringes of Feira de Santana “It’s devastating to see one more young person die because of crime – a young man with his whole future before him,” added Farias who said her neighbour had become mixed up in drugs Cruz was the 296th person to die in Feira de Santana this year and the latest victim of an escalating murder crisis that has arguably made public security the key issue as Brazil holds its most unpredictable presidential election in decades Ahead of Sunday’s vote, the country’s uncontrolled violence is fuelling support for the far-right pacemaker Jair Bolsonaro who has opened up a 10-point lead over his closest rival with many followers citing security as their main reason for championing the 63-year-old politician Many are horrified at the rise of a pro-torture populist notorious for his vicious and incendiary remarks about women But Latin America’s largest democracy suffered a record 63,880 homicides last year – more than 6,000 of them in the north-eastern state of Bahia, where Feira is located – and Bolsonaro has promised no-nonsense fixes, including loosening gun laws. so of course they’ll grow,” he said at a campaign event in the Amazon earlier this year “If someone breaks into our house or our ranch we must have the right to shoot them – and if we kill them “This is the only way we are going to put the brakes on these crooks.” the head of a Brazilian thinktank called the Igarapé Institute said crime had been catapulted up the political agenda by both “a sense and an objective reality” among voters that things were on the slide Feira de Santana crime reporter Gleidson Santos chronicles the soaring violence on his blog Policia é Viola Photograph: Alan Lima“So far I haven’t heard a single decent proposal … They [just] talk a crime reporter who estimates he has visited more than a thousand murder scenes in Feira since he began covering the beat in 2004 given the sheer magnitude and scale of homicidal violence … what is striking is how weak the proposals have been.” candidates have tried to talk tough on crime or the causes of crime The centre-left candidate Ciro Gomes, who is third in polls, has vowed to “cut the head off” organized crime while the leftist Guilherme Boulos has pledged to end a futile war on drugs responsible for “a veritable genocide” of young who recently replaced former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the PT candidate but is struggling to catch up with Bolsonaro has blamed soaring violence in north-eastern Brazil on crime syndicates from Rio and São Paulo squabbling over lucrative new markets created by the “China-style growth” of the Lula era He promises a “unified public security system” and to federalize some crimes so state authorities can focus on fighting murders whose mano dura (‘firm hand’ or ‘iron fist’) policy to throw “everything” at the “hoodlums” has struck a chord with millions of voters “You can’t treat this kind of person as if they were a normal human being … You’ve got to shoot. If you don’t shoot you’ll never sort all this out,” the far-rightwing populist said in one interview Speaking to the Guardian earlier this year claimed supporters were fed up with do-gooder activists hampering an effective crackdown on crime “How much money will human rights NGOs get [under a Bolsonaro presidency] Such rhetoric has impressed violence-weary voters “Brazil is in such a state that Bolsonaro and this general of his are the only guys who can restore some order,” said the 67-year-old farmer, brandishing a kitchen knife he recently started carrying for fear of being assaulted by drug addicts. Paulo Henrique Villas Boas, a Bolsonaro supporter in Recife, Pernambuco’s violence-stricken capital, agreed an iron fist was the answer: “Brazil is at war … an informal war.” That last claim rings true when you spend time on the heavily militarized frontlines of a drug conflict ravaging communities up and down Brazil. “The weapons they have nowadays are just as powerful as ours,” said one member of Feira de Santana’s elite Rondesp police unit as his unit swept into the Expansão do Feira IX favela in search of gang members, wielding submachine guns and assault rifles. Locals fled indoors or looked on passively from their doorsteps as the six-member team filed past, across fetid open-air sewers and rubbish-strewn wastelands, frisking and interrogating a succession of young black men as they went. referring to the two factions vying for control of Feira’s drug trade Col Luziel Andrade de Oliveira, the regional police commander, claimed his troops were gradually winning a constant “game of cat and mouse” with gangsters he blamed for 80% of murders. In one recent operation officers seized nearly 100 firearms Leal admitted security forces alone would not fix what was in many ways a social crisis: “If we carry on with just the police working on this we are going to have a very serious problem.” a PT politician who until 2014 ran a regional anti-homicide initiative called Pact for Life said the only way to tackle Brazil’s “intolerable” murder crisis was to simultaneously tighten its borders crack down on organized crime and reduce drug consumption “You’ll never solve the problem just declaring war on drugs.” In Loteamento Alameda das Árvores many locals have given up on politicians solving the problem altogether and are seeking their own fixes Twenty-four hours after her teenage neighbour was interred Farias was preparing to meet an entrepreneur she hoped might bankroll a social project to get young men off the streets and away from drugs She said she felt so neglected by politicians she would boycott Sunday’s election “Has anyone said anything about public security apart from Bolsonaro who just says he wants to kill all the crooks?” Farias asked “I don’t see any real proposals … [so] what’s the point in exercising my right as a citizen?” she wondered before adding: “Even if my own father was a candidate An overview of violence in Brazil to help international political reporters who are covering the October elections This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License The number of intentional homicide victims in Brazil rose 15.5 percent to 61,283 from 2012 to 2016, according to the most recent data available from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime it is the country where the most people are murdered the rate of homicides per 100,000 people is 29.53 Some 38 percent of Brazilians name violence as the country’s top problem, according to Portraits of Brazilian Society: Problems and Priorities for 2018, a survey of 2,000 people from 127 municipalities conducted by the Confederation of National Industry Candidates for Brazil’s presidential elections in October 2018 are aware of the widespread fear and are getting prepared to discuss an issue that will certainly be present in the presidential debates To help political reporters understand the problem of violence in Brazil, Journalist’s Resource interviewed journalist and scholar Bruno Paes Manso, author of Homicide in São Paulo: An Examination of Trends from 1960-2010 After covering crime for the daily newspaper O Estado de S Paes Manso is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo’s Center for the Study of Violence  (Editor’s note: The interview was conducted in Portuguese and Paes Manso’s responses were translated into English.) If foreign correspondents want to tell the true story of violence in Brazil they must venture into the north of the country “In Brazil the violence in Rio de Janeiro gets most of the international media coverage but the most dangerous cities are in the Northeast region Of the 30 most violent cities in the world, 10 are in Brazil, according to Mexico’s Council for Public Security’s annual ranking in 2017 which reports that out of the 10 most violent Brazilian cities the local drug lords have been receiving greater quantities of drugs and more weapons supplied by different large gangs from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro that have built wholesale operations nationwide,” says Paes Manso “And as the local markets in the Northeast region are still very fragmented São Paulo state, in the Southeast region, is a notable exception to the trend. There, the rate of homicides per 100,000 people fell from 64.8 in 2000 to 15.4 in 2012 there are many causes that explain a fall like this one,” Paes Manso says and as most murders are committed by young males The police in São Paulo became more efficient and the judiciary became tougher.” the state of São Paulo had 32,842 people in its prisons according to the Secretaria de Administração Penitenciária Fewer criminals on the streets had an unexpected side effect the drug lords began operating from inside the prisons Putting them behind bars did not disempower them It was from prisons that Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) PCC avoided killings in São Paulo and expanded its power to all corners of Brazil,” he says Rio de Janeiro state seemed to be following a similar path until recent years. The rate of homicides per 100,000 people fell from 58.3 in 2002 to 24 in 2014 The fall was largely attributed to the community policing policy adopted by Sérgio Cabral who served as governor of the state from 2007 to 2014 There are three main drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro — Comando Vermelho the gangs agreed to slow down the fight,” says Paes Manso (Editor’s note:  A favela is a shantytown located within a large city.) Cabral was jailed in 2016 after leaving the governor’s office civil services collapsed and the community policing policy was negatively affected One of the most shocking murders took place in March 2018. Marielle Franco, an activist and Rio city councilor from a favela, was shot dead in her car Paes Manso says he has no doubt violence will be one of the main issues in this year`s presidential election here is a list of helpful sources and academic experts who have studied violence in Brazil The Atlas of Violence, a federal interactive database of Brazilian violence statistics published by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) The Instituto Sou da Paz a non-governmental organization focused on reducing the levels of violence in Brazil Ilona Szabó, co-founder and executive director of the Igarapé Institute a think tank that generates research on security and justice Camila Nunes Dias professor of sociology at Universidade Federal do ABC Alba Zaluar a Brazilian anthropologist with an expertise in the anthropology of violence Ignácio Cano, professor at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro and founder of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Violence Cláudio Beato professor of sociology at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais José Luiz de Amorim Ratton Jr. professor of sociology at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco César Barreira professor of sociology at Universidade Federal do Ceará and head of the Lab for the Study of Violence at the university Rodrigo Ghiringhelli de Azevedo director of graduate studies in social sciences at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul —————————————- About the author:  Eduardo Salgado is an executive editor at Exame an economic and business magazine in Brazil he was the foreign desk editor for the newspaper O Estado de S he covered the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of London For some related reading, see our roundup of studies on violence against women crossing the border into the United States and our collection of research about prison population trends in the United States Harvard Kennedy School is committed to protecting your personal information you agree to receive communications from The Journalist's Resource and to allow HKS to store your data HKS will never sell your email address or other information to a third party All communications will include the opportunity to unsubscribe We take no responsibility for the accuracy of the translation 2014The Japanese auto parts company Yazaki plans to close its factory in Feira de Santana both affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union are campaigning to halt the closure and save the jobs of the factory’s 1,200 workers Union leaders met Bahia Institutional Relations Department (SERIN) officials on 26 June to ask the state government to mediate agreed to explore the possibility of saving the jobs and to open talks with representatives of the company the workers and the departments of trade and industry (SICM) and labour and employment (SETRE) Representatives of the union and the company met the Bahian Regional Superintendent of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on 30 June in Salvador said that the company wants to close the factory at the end of July The company says it will not change its plans and wants to dismiss 400 workers at the end of this week so the union has strengthened the campaign against the plant closure also attended the meeting on 30 June and said it was necessary to seek support from local and international organisations where the company plans to relocate and ask IndustriALL Global Union to raise the issue with the company’s head office in Japan We are talking about the fate of 1,200 families This could also have a major impact on the local economy" CNM/CUT president said: “The metalworkers in Feira de Santana can count on the CNM/CUT’s support in this fight We cannot leave 1,200 workers without support It is a blow to the economy and the labour market We are in solidarity with the metalworkers at Yazaki and with the struggle of the Feira de Santana union and we are going to fight alongside them to get Yazaki to take responsibility for the situation and ensure the plant does not close" IndustriALL Global Union is following the situation closely and is ready to act in solidarity with the local union to defend the jobs of more than 1,000 workers in the auto industry IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliates represent over 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining We take up the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights around the world © Copyright 2018 - IndustriALL - We care about your personal information and data. Take a look at our Privacy Policy. REORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION STRUCTURE TO ACCELERATE FOCUS ON HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS, MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY AND ENSURE COMPETITIVENESS STRENGTHENING OF FACTORY IN CAMPINAS (SAN PAOLO) WITH THE CREATION OF A PRODUCTION HUB FOR HIGH VALUE CAR, MOTO AND MOTORSPORT TYRES FOR LATIN AMERICA; 300 NEW HIRES SEEN BY 2022 IN GRAVATAÍ (RIO GRANDE DO SUL) ACTIONS WILL BE TAKEN, IN AGREEMENT WITH UNIONS, TO MITIGATE THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE TRANSFER OF MOTO PRODUCTION TO CAMPINAS PIRELLI AND PROMETEON TYRE GROUP WILL RECIPROCALLY EVALUATE ACTIONS AIMED AT MITIGATING EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS Milan, 13 May 2019 – Pirelli confirms its strategic presence in Brazil through a reorganization of its production structure, which will facilitate the acceleration of its the focus on High Value products and improve the competitiveness of its manufacturing sites in the Country, considering also the difficult economic context. The Company foresees a 120 million euro investment plan for the period 2019-2021 for the modernization and reconversion of its production plants from Standard to High Value, and the ongoing improvement of the mix and quality in the factories of Campinas (San Paolo) and Feira de Santana (Bahia). These investments are in addition to the 320 million euro already deployed in the period 2013-2018. This reorganization will make Pirelli’s presence in Brazil more solid and more competitive. The resources relative to the reorganization are mainly derived from the signing of the fiscal agreement for the Patent Box, which took place in October of 2018 and, as announced at the time, go towards the further focus on High Value and faster reduction of the Standard segment. At the same time, with the goal of finding an agreement with unions during the period of production transfer, the Company will take all possible actions to mitigate the social impact at the Gravataí plant, which today employs around 900 people. In particular, as a first step on this path and considering the confirmation received from Prometeon Tyre Group Brazil of its industrial presence in Gravataí, Pirelli and Prometeon Tyre Group will reciprocally evaluate actions aimed at mitigating the effect on employment, compatibly with the conditions of the local market and the competitiveness of the respective businesses. Copyright © 1995 - 2023 Pirelli & C. S.p.A. - P.IVA: 00860340157 Industry and market insights and forecasts Key figures and rankings about companies and products Consumer and brand insights and preferences in various industries Detailed information about political and social topics All key figures about countries and regions Market InsightsMarket forecast and expert KPIs for 1000+ markets in 190+ countries & territories Consumer InsightsInsights on consumer attitudes and behavior worldwide eCommerce InsightsDetailed information for 39,000+ online stores and marketplaces Directly accessible data for 170 industries from 150+ countries and over 1 million facts: Full-service market research and analytics Strategy and business building for the data-driven economy Transforming data into content marketing and design: Industry-specific and extensively researched technical data (partially from exclusive partnerships) A paid subscription is required for full access In 2024, six of the eight Brazilian cities with the highest homicide rates were in the Northeast. Feira da Santana led the ranking of the most violent city in Brazil, with a murder rate of 55.63 per 100,000 inhabitants. It was followed followed by Recife, with a homicide rate of more than 41 per 100,000 inhabitants. In Latin America and the Caribbean Feira da Santana was the 22nd most deadly city Only cities with a population over 300,000 Brazil: number of violent deaths of LGBT people 2007-2023 Brazil: civilians killed by the police in Rio de Janeiro 2003-2024 To download this statistic in XLS format you need a Statista Account To download this statistic in PNG format you need a Statista Account To download this statistic in PDF format you need a Statista Account To download this statistic in PPT format you need a Statista Account As a Premium user you get access to the detailed source references and background information about this statistic As a Premium user you get access to background information and details about the release of this statistic you will immediately be notified via e-mail … to incorporate the statistic into your presentation at any time You need at least a Starter Account to use this feature Choosing to take the academic road less traveled botanist Ana Maria Giulietti seeks new directions and new initiatives to solidify research groups Bel PedrosaAna Maria Giulietti, from the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, is known for her contributions as a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). She has left her mark at both due to her curiosity and dedication, exploring new themes and helping to organize the institutions. Undeterred by a serious hearing problem, Ana looked like a celebrity at the conference. It is difficult to resist citing her favorite plant as a metaphor: the Eriocaulaceae, popularly known in Portuguese as the sempre-viva (always alive). You have worked in many places over the course of your career. What motivates you to move around so much? I am from the Northeast, from the state of Pernambuco. I was born in Pesqueira, in the middle of the Caatinga region, and ended up in São Paulo. But I always said that I wanted to go back to the Northeast, to return to my roots. Was creating the course your main objective? Very much so. I studied natural history at Faculdade Frassinetti do Recife. My friends working in research said, “You work at USP, you can do anything! Come and see the problems we face.” I always said that when I retire, I would show them that it is possible to do good quality research anywhere, as long as you are willing. Eriocaulaceae: Paepalanthus speciosus… FLORA BRASILIENSIS …and P. steudelianusFLORA BRASILIENSIS PERSONAL ARCHIVE Fieldwork in Mucugê, Bahia, 1980: Countess Beatrix Orssich, Raymond Harley, Nanuza Luiza de Menezes, Pat Brennan (back, from left to right); the driver, Ana Giulietti, Graça Sajo, Maria Mercedes Arbo, and João Semir (front)PERSONAL ARCHIVE JOÃO MARCOS ROSA Studying flora collected from the Carajás in the herbarium with technician Lourival TiskyJOÃO MARCOS ROSA is the Eriocaulaceae still your favorite plant Brazil’s greatest ever algae specialist decided to dedicate himself to higher plants (since almost no one studied them in São Paulo) and began surveying the flora in the Cipó mountain range I had finished my master’s degree at USP and returned to Recife to work at the Agronomic Institute of Pernambuco where I had done my scientific research training I contacted Aylthon about getting a FAPESP scholarship to study a doctorate which I worked on during my master’s degree but he had something else in mind: to receive the scholarship I would have to study the Eriocaulaceae from the Cipó mountains “They are very beautiful,” he told me “And very complex too,” I replied “That’s why I’m telling you to study them.” And then you continued studying them afterwards? Yes. I think we all fall in love with things that we study so intensely. Especially if it is hard work. Nanuza worked with Velloziaceae and Walquíria Monteiro worked on Eriocaulaceae anatomy We went to the Cipó mountains with some of our students They later joined Aylthon Joly at UNICAMP where he was forming a new department and who would stay at USP to teach angiosperm taxonomy if I moved to Campinas But we went to the Cipó mountains with Aylthon before he retired from USP in April and I noticed he seemed to have a bad cough so he stayed at the hotel to make a key for identifying the families of the Cipó flora without using their flowers he showed us his work; it was a highly valuable document We returned to São Paulo and he was still coughing I continued my doctorate under the supervision of Carlos Bicudo and decided to continue working on Aylthon Joly’s dream in the Cipó mountains The work we did at USP always had a greater objective and we always wanted to pass our knowledge on to the students But your situation today is not far from that dream I still feel like I am a part of it at USP I am from Brazil—I never considered living abroad my second daughter married a Spaniard and lives in Seville and the third married a Scotsman and lives in Munich The eldest of Ray’s children lives in France That is why I want to reduce my commitments next year—when I commit to something there are several people who can continue my work It was the same at USP and Feira de Santana I have to be able to realize when I am no longer contributing as I used to © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved.